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On The Distributional Consequences Of Child Labor Legislation
Krueger, Dirk; Donohue, Jessica Tjornhom - eSocialSciences - 2007
, uninsurable idiosyncratic income risk, borrowing constraints, and endogenous wage and interest rate determination in general …
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Does Organic Agriculture Lead to Better Health among Organic and Conventional Farmers in Thailand? An Investigation of Health Expenditure among Organic and Conventional Farmers in...
Setboonsarng, Sunantar; Lavado, Rouselle F. - eSocialSciences - 2009
The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic farming practices leads to better health. As a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of organic and conventional rice-farming households in North and Northeast Thailand is done. Using...
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Kerala Budget Speech 2009-10
Govt, Government of Kerala - eSocialSciences - 2009
Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
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Biology As Destiny? Short And Long-Run Determinants Of Intergenerational Transmission Of Birth Weight
Currie, Janet; Moreti, Enrico - eSocialSciences - 2005
use names and birth dates to link the records of mothers and children. We also identify mothers who are siblings. We show … that there is a strong intergenerational correlation in the birth weight of mothers and children, but that a measure of … household income at the time of the mother's birth is also predictive of low birth weight and that there is an interaction …
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Changes in Poverty Profile in China
Shi, Li - eSocialSciences - 2008
sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …
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Inda's Pharmaceutical Industry on Course for Globalisation
Perlitz, Uwe - eSocialSciences - 2008
The pharmaceutical industry is expanding worldwide. For some years now, it has been benefiting from the particular dynamics of the Asian economies as both purchasers and producers. It is not only the markets in China and India that register high growth rates. Despite the positive outlook India...
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Are Fair Trade Labels Effective Against Child Labor?
Baland, Jean Marie; Duprez, Cedric - eSocialSciences - 2008
In this paper, a model of North-South trade is developed to analyze the impact of a label certifying the absence of child labour in the export production of the South. [WP no 144].
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Hong Kong's Banks During the Financial Crisis
Mülhaupt, Robert; Dyck, Steffen - eSocialSciences - 2009
Despite the negative impact of the current crisis and many remaining uncertainties about the actual economic recovery path, the medium-term outlook for Hong Kong’s banks remains favourable.
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Food Consumption and Nutritional Status in India: Emerging Trends and Perspectives
R, Radhakrishna - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper reviews the trends over three decades in the consumption of cereals, calories and micronutrients and nutritional status based on anthropometric measures using the data sets of NSS, NNMB and NFHS. It provides an explanation for the slow growth of nutrient intake and slow reduction in...
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Comparing Subjective and Objective Measures of Health: Evidence from Hypertension for the Income/Health Gradient
Johnston, David W; Propper, Carol; Shields, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …
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