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Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay. We experimentally evaluate the impact of a housing project run by the NGO TECHO which provides … program is to improve household well-being. Our findings show that better houses have a positive effect on overall housing … improvements in children’s health; in El Salvador, slum dwellers also feel that they are safer. We do not find this result, however …
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quality of life is compared across groups, with ‘housing and infrastructure’ and ‘social relationships’ explaining the …
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Development literature in the past decade has become more people centric with human development being projected as one of the 'ends' of development planning. The present paper tries to explore the trends, patterns and regional dimension of human development (HD) in India through construction of...
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This study analyses and compares child health in Pakistan, Peru, Jamaica, Russia and South Africa. These countries … health, and in the nature and magnitude of the effects of its determinants. …
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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This paper investigates the changes to health care facilities and the nutritional status of Black children during the …
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We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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This study extends the literature on the demand for child height to consider the demand for child micronutrient status. Micronutrient malnutrition is a pervasive and debilitating problem in many developing countries. A central focus concerns the distinct roles of maternal schooling versus...
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This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and analyzes its causes and consequences. It shows that, as in the international context, the relationship between income and life expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent...
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that improvements in infant health help explain secular increases in cognitive test scores, that better cognition may link … early life health to adulthood earnings, and that human capital investments through childhood and young adulthood respond …
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