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Childhood immunization, mortality and human capital accumulation: Micro-evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh - 2009
-called "Universal Immunization Program" (UIP)in order to reduce the high mortality and morbidity among children. I examine the effect of … reduced mortality, it had mixed effects on children's educational outcomes. I fnd it had a negative impact on primary school … lower average health among marginal surviving children or a quantity-quality trade-off where the unanticipated survival of …
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Health Returns to Birth Weight: Evidence from Developing Countries
Kamble, Vaibhav - 2021
This paper explores the effect of birth weight on a series of anthropometric outcomes among children. We use a panel of … and economically significant improvements in children's anthropometric outcomes. An additional 100 grams birth weight is … infant mortality suggests that the true effects of birth weight on children’s outcomes are larger and that the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230435
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Health Returns to Birth Weight: Evidence from Developing Countries
Keshav, Vaibhav - 2021
This paper explores the effect of birth weight on a series of anthropometric outcomes among children. We use a panel of … and economically significant improvements in children's anthropometric outcomes. An additional 100 grams birth weight is … infant mortality suggests that the true effects of birth weight on children’s outcomes are larger and that the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015232662
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Receptarea soap-opera de către tineri. Studiu de caz: „Beverly Hills”
Branea, Silvia - 2003
Besides the theoretical approach, the paper also includes an research conducted with students of the Faculty of Jornalism and Communication at the University of Bucarest. The main objective of this research was to determine the extent to which the media fiction (television series for youth)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015234719
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Can Lipset’s theory travel through time and space? the destination Nicaragua, 1972-1998. A time series test of the social requisites of democracy.
Michalak, Katja - 2011
The epigraph is emblematic of an orthodox theoretical view that ‘only in a wealthy society could a situation exist in which the mass of the population could intelligently participate in politics’ and that this relationship is universal and applicable cross time and space. Comparing ancient...
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Polarization and the Middle Class in China: a Non-Parametric Evaluation Using CHNS and CHIP Data
Khan, Haider Ali; Schettino, Francesco; Gabriele, Alberto - 2017
The record economic growth of PRC since the 1990s has been accompanied by an increase in both income inequalities and polarization. We employ Relative Distribution tools (Handcock and Morris, 1998) on different datasets in order to provide a detailed analysis of Chinese income distribution...
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Youth unemployment and employment policy: a global perspective
O'Higgins, Niall - 2001
This study discusses in depth the youth unemployment "problem" and examines the various policy responses to it, including education and training, and active labour market policy. It emphasizes the need for adequate labour market information, policy monitoring and programme evaluation to help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015222245
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Effects on Fertility of The Brazilian Cash Transfer Program: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Approach
Superti, Luiz Henrique - 2019
beneficiaries to have more children. Using federal data and the eligibility rule, we propose a regression discontinuity to verify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015227181
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Divorce and the birth control pill
MARCÉN, MIRIAM - 2012
This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...
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Why has the birth rate relatively increased in China's wealthy cities?
Chen, Nana; Xu, Hangtian - 2021
China’s wealthy cities tended to have low birth rates in past decades, but this relationship has disappeared in conjunction with the substantial relaxation of the one-child policy after 2011. This study develops a conceptual framework for the relationship between average household wealth and...
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