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randomized allocation of political quotas in India and the unanticipated introduction of board quotas in Norway have allowed …
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In the mid 1990s the issue of adult fertility was of great concern for those who were working on the adolescence issues …. Particularly fertility outside marriage. As an international scientific organization with its mandate centered around the needs of …
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Examines the evidence for various explantions usually offered for the differences infertility behaviour across regions and over time in India. The data sets used in the study are National Sample Survey and Sample Registration System, the other using cultural characteristics from the...
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This paper presents a lecture delivered by the author under The Pravin Visaria Public Lecture in GIDR. India has made considerable demographic progress since 1947; however it seems that the country’s population will reach about 1.4 billion by the year 2026. In case of mortality, despite major...
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the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. [BREAD WP No. 415]. …
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Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. The fertility … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure is identified, both …
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The paper examines two questions: (i) do population trends impede agricultural productivity? or (ii) it promote agricultural productivity or both? [BIDS}.
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The introduction of the Target Free Approach (TFA) has been a major policy shift in the health and family welfare programme of India. This study reviewed the process of change in the implementation of new policy and its impact on the quality of health care and reproductive and child health...
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Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding …
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female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … both higher female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the …
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