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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016242
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Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS
Kyle, Margaret K; McGahan, Anita M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper addresses the relationship between patent protection and investment in the development of new pharmaceutical treatments. The TRIPS Agreement, which specifies minimum levels of intellectual property protection for countries in the World Trade Organization, has increased levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002387
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The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Health of their Children
Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504391
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The Elimination of Madagascar's Vanilla Marketing Board, Ten Years On
Cadot, Olivier; de Melo, Jaime; Dutoit, Laure - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Commodity prices are usually very slow to recover from adverse shocks. This is one of the reasons why it has proven so difficult either to smooth their effect or to stabilize them, and why it is sometimes argued that they should behave as if shocks were permanent. There is no reason however why...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656239
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How Costly is it for Poor Farmers to Lift Themselves out of Subsistence?
Cadot, Olivier; Dutoit, Laure; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The main objective of this paper is to provide estimates of the cost of moving out of subsistence for Madagascar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662377
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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661558
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Water Nationalization: network access, water quality, and health outcomes
Borraz, Fernando; González, Nicolás; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
, water quality, and health outcomes of Uruguay's nationalization of water services. An important advantage of focusing on …
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Identifying Industry Margins with Unobserved Price Constraints: Structural Estimation on Pharmaceuticals
Dubois, Pierre; Lasio, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We provide a method allowing to identify margins in an oligopoly price competition game when prices may not be freely chosen in some markets, for example due to regulation. We use our identification strategy to study the effects of regulatory constraints in the pharmaceutical industry, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083879
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Vaccines vs. Preventives
Kremer, Michael; Snyder, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Preventives are sold ex ante, before disease status is realized, while treatments are sold ex post. Even if the mean of the ex ante distribution of consumer values is the same as that ex post, the shape of the distributions may differ, generating a difference between the surplus each product can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196028