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Inequality of Opportunity in Health in Indonesia

Jusot, Florence; Mage, Sabine; Menendez, Marta - DIAL - 2014

Whereas health equity issues are undoubtedly more relevant in developing countries, research on health inequalities and, more specifically, on inequality of opportunity in the health dimension, remains scarce in this context. This paper explores the degree of inequality of opportunity in health...

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Equality of opportunity and other equity principles in the context of developing countries

Cogneau, Denis - DIAL - 2005

appears to be back on the ‘development agenda’. Nowadays the term equity tends to be most often associated with the equality …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416723

Colonisation and Development in the Former French West Africa: The Long-term Impact of the Colonial Public Policy

Huillery, Elise - DIAL - 2006

Frenchspeaking West Africa? This paper uses the differences in development outcomes across the areas of the former French West Africa … to show the existence of colonial long term effects on development paths. To correct from potential biases, I take … strong determinant of current development of the districts of the former French West Africa. First, the African chiefs …

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Women's empowerment across the life cycle and generations: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Arestoff, Florence; Djemai, Elodie - DIAL - 2013

(english) Does female empowerment evolve over the life cycle, and has it changed across generations? We use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys covering a sample of about 191,000 adult women to evaluate the age, period and cohort effect regarding individual attitudes to marital...

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Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar

Nordman, Christophe; Vaillant, Julia - DIAL - 2013

of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

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Comment les femmes concilient-elles mariage et travail à Dakar et à Lomé ?

Adjamagbo, Agnès; Antoine, Philippe; Beguy, Donatien; … - DIAL - 2006

(english) Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in exercising an economic activity and in assuming their domestic activities. Husbands’ insufficient or inexistent income has increased women’s role in household survival...

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Early Marriage, Women Empowerment and Child Mortality: Married Too Young To Be a «Good Mother»?

Guilbert, Nathalie - DIAL - 2013

(english) This paper uses data from recent Senegalese Demographic and Health Surveys to explore the link between female empowerment and child mortality via early marriage, defined as marriage before age 16. There exist three channels through which early marriage reduces a mother's ability to...

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The distribution of AIDS over the population in Africa Hypothesis building from individual answers to a Demographic and Health Survey with an application to Côte d'Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Grimm, Michael - DIAL - 2002

Lack of knowledge about risk differentials regarding AIDS seriously hampers the study of the economic impact of AIDS in developing countries, at both the macro- and micro-economic levels. In this paper, we derive, we think, reasonable assumptions on mortality risk differentials by age,...

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Parental Income and School Attendance in a Low-Income Country : A semi-parametric analysis

Cogneau, Denis; Maurin, Eric - DIAL - 2001

Using data covering three successive generations of Malagasy people, we construct a new semiparametric estimator of the effect of parental income on the decision to send children to school. We propose new tests of simultaneity and hereditary biases affecting the usual estimates of this effect....

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"To Have and Have Not”: Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria

Margolis, David; Miotti, Luis; Mouhoud; Oudinet, Joël - DIAL - 2014

This article analyses the distributional impact of international migration across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. The non-parametric technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) is used to analyse the...

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