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This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...
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In this paper, I establish the relationship between human capital investment and economic development in Nigeria using a micro-data. Previous studies on Nigeria have exploited the macro data and findings are inconclusive. These studies proxy educational quality by enrolment in learning...
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Spurred by a recent Supreme Court order, many Indian states have introduced cooked mid-day meals in primary schools. This article reports the findings of a recent survey which suggests that this initiative could have a major impact on child nutrition, school attendance and social equity....
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This paper examines the impact of post-neonatal childhood health on adult educational attainment using evidence from … of the laws across states to identify both the short-run impacts on child health and long-term effects on educational …
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-employment. Moreover, educational attainment and good health variables have also significant and positive influence on workers’ decision to … agricultural education at basic and secondary level to the workers. It is also concluded that health facilities should be provided …
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undernutrition for at least two decades. In this paper we aim to understand the sources of this unheralded success with the … rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys covering the period from 1997 to 2011. …
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As Bhutan has progressed financially, its health indicators have also progressed. It has achieved significant gains in … all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet two major indicators of significant undernutrition remain persistently … nutrition-specific determinants of undernutrition in Bhutan, among them diarrheal diseases, high parasite loads in parts of the …
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and lower their motivation to go to school, where smoking is forbidden. Using rich household survey data from rural China …
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Massler •Rehabilitating China’s Loess Plateau by John Mackedon •Building on Successes with Regreening in the West African … Reduction of Maternal and Child Undernutrition? by David Nabarro, Purnima Menon, Marie Ruel, and Sivan Yosef •Alive & Thrive …
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