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Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children : Evidence from Rural China

Giles, John - 2006

families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are …

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Does Being "Left Behind" in Childhood Lead to Criminality in Adulthood? Evidence from Data on Rural-Urban Migrants and Prison Inmates in China

Cameron, Lisa A.; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2022

Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million …

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Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age : Comparative Evidence from China and the United States

Chen, Xi - 2020

evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …

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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being : Evidence from India

Hu, Luojia - 2011

In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...

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Wars and Child Health : Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict

Akresh, Richard - 2011

This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's...

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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India

Hazarika, Gautam - 2010

This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less developed countries recent influential research on the...

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Left Behind : Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in the Midst of HIV/AIDS

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2010

This paper provides evidence on how adverse health conditions affect the transfer of human capital from one generation to the next. We explore the differential exposure to HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa as a substantial health shock to both household and community environment. We...

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Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2012

This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are...

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Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health : Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh

Joshi, Shareen - 2012

The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from...

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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to 600000 mothers during...

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