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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India

van soest, arthur; Bhalotra, S.; Valente, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

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Improving the Modeling of Couples' Labour Supply

Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Gong, Xiaodong - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations. We introduce three improvements to this standard model. First, we allow partners' preferences about...

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Partnered women’s labour supply and child care costs in Australia: measurement error and the child care price

Gong, Xiaodong; Breuing, Robert; King, Anthony - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011

We show that measurement error in the constructed price of child care can explain why previous Australian studies have found partnered women’s labour supply to be unresponsive to child care prices. Through improved data and improved construction of the child care price variable, we find child...

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Does Family Planning Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from Surveillance Data in Matlab, Bangladesh

van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

previous child, and the family’s gender composition. Birth spacing is driven by contraceptive use and other factors. We find …Abstract: Analyzing the effect of family planning on child survival remains an important issue but is not … straightforward because of several mechanisms linking family planning, birth intervals, total fertility, and child survival. This …

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Birth Spacing, Child Survival and Fertility Decisions : Analysis of Causal Mechanismsa

van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: We jointly analyze infant mortality, birth spacing, and total fertility of children in a rural area in … that if families would behave as if their all children were sons, fertility levels would be reduced by 3.5% and 5.7% in the …

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Birth Spacing and Neonatal Mortality in India : Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity

van soest, arthur; Bhalotra, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

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Infant Mortality in Rural Bangladesh : State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity

van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

Using longitudinal data of the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Matlab, Bangladesh, covering the time period 1982 – 2005, and exploiting dynamic panel data models, we analyze siblings’ death at infancy, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and a causal effect of death...

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Increasing Returns to Education: Theory and Evidence

Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn; Gong, Xiaodong - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We show that there are increasing returns to education at the labor market...

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