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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy

Klasen, Stephan - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient …

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The Double African Paradox: What does selective mortality tell us?

Rouanet, Léa - 2011

We study the relationship between height stature and child mortality in West Africa. This is motivated by two things: understanding the determinants of height, widely used health indicator, and explaining the « double African paradox ». This paradox comes from the fact that Africans are...

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The Unequal Impact of the COVID Pandemic: Theory and Evidence on Health and Economic Outcomes for Different Income Groups

Aubert, Cécile; Dang, Hai-Anh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022

This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two papers and their theoretical and empirical results....

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Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Disproportionately Affect the Poor? Evidence from a Six-Country Survey

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Huynh, Toan L. D.; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, much needs to be learnt on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We contribute new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country...

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Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Disproportionately Affect the Poor? Evidence from a Six-Country Survey

Dang, Hai-Anh; Huynh, Toan L. D.; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We provide the first study that offers new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on...

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Welfare implications of fiscal reform: The case of food subsidies in India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2002

This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the following linked questions using household survey data that includes information on usage of the public distribution system. First, does the food subsidy induce higher expenditures on...

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Weather Shock, Agricultural Productivity and Infant Health: A Tale of Environmental Injustice

Pal, Soumya - 2021

We study how income shock affect due to weather shock causally impacts the birth outcomes. We selected households depended directly on agriculture due to their extreme vulnerability to temperature and rainfall shocks. We find large efficiency loss attributed to weather shock for major food crops...

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Malaria Control and Infant Mortality in Africa

Cogneau, Denis; Rossi, Pauline - 2019

Has massive distribution of insecticide-treated-nets contributed to the reduction in infant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 15 years? Using large household surveys collected in 16 countries and exploiting the spatial correlation in distribution campaigns, we estimate the...

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Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India

Singh, Prakarsh; Masters, William A. - 2016

This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments...

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Non-contributory pensions

Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul; Bando, Rosangela - 2014

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

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