This paper studies the relationship between mothers’ employment and children’s schooling in India. Using the second National Family Health Survey, the results of a multilevel probit model show that the correlation between mothers’ employment and their children’s schooling is negative....

This paper gives some insight into the existence of a positive effect of family planning programmes on women's employment in developing countries. We study married women aged 15-49 living throughout India using a sample drawn from the National Health Family Survey (NFHS-2) for 1998-1999. We...

Purpose – This paper aims to study the relation between the employment of mothers and the activities of children with the aim of contributing to the understanding of child work in India. Design/methodology/approach – Multinomial logit specifications of children's activities and mothers'...

Purpose – This paper aims to study the relation between the employment of mothers and the activities of children with the aim of contributing to the understanding of child work in India. Design/methodology/approach – Multinomial logit specifications of children's activities and mothers'...

The paper proposes a latent class version of Combination of Uniform and (shifted) Binomial random variables ( <Emphasis FontCategory="NonProportional">CUB ) models for ordinal data to account for unobserved heterogeneity. The extension, called  <Emphasis FontCategory="NonProportional">LC-CUB , is useful when the heterogeneity is originated by clusters of respondents not...</emphasis></emphasis>

In family medicine contrasting evidence exists on the effectiveness of team practice compared with solo practice on chronic disease management. In Italy, several experiences of team practice have been introduced since the late 1990s but few studies detail their impact on the quality of care.

This paper analyses income mobility in Viet Nam from 2004 to 2008. The concept of income mobility is important for developed and developing economies, especially for those, such as Viet Nam, witnessing a stable persistent economic growth and profound structural transformations. Income mobility...