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analysis of child growth data for approximately 99,000 children in 19 countries with some of the highest burdens of …
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parents, family income, occupation of parents, and family relationships. The research methodology I employed was guided by … there were no gender differences in relation to psychological well-being of students. Educational levels of parents …, occupation, income, and family relationships impact students’ psychological well-being. This study contributes to the literature …
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positions in the ranking between 2004 and 2009. In addition to the three traditional dimensions of the HDI—income, education …
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income, and mortality (n=496,658; 274,316 deaths between 1995 and 2007). We estimate bivariate and multivariate Cox … occupation and income, and the effects of occupation is mediated by income. All dimensions have their own net effect on mortality …, but income shows the steepest mortality gradient (HR 1.78, lowest vs. highest quintile). Income is more important for men …
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childhood health shocks on the cognitive abilities of the children of parents born during the famine. We find that daughters … born to rural fathers who experienced the famine in early childhood score lower in major tests than sons, whereas children …
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South Asia has long been synonymous with persistent and unusually high rates of child undernutrition—the so-called Asian enigma. Yet contrary to this stereotype, Bangladesh has managed to sustain a rapid reduction in the rate of child undernutrition for at least two decades. In this paper...
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Given recent interest in reducing undernutrition–particularly the role of nutrition-sensitive policies–this paper aims to quantitatively understand this surprising success story by analyzing the 2001, 2006, and 2011 rounds of Nepal’s Demographic Health Surveys. To do so, the...
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