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the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … months have lower anthropometric scores compared with children born during the fall and winter months. The authors propose … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …
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addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …
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? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they …
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feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this puzzle, the authors assess the program's placement and its outcomes using …
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Since the launch of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the Millennium Summit in New York in September 2000, the MDGs have become the most widely-accepted yardstick of development efforts by governments, donors and NGOs. The MDGs are a set of numerical and time-bound targets related to...
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"In this paper the authors estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics such as...
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The Republic of Maldives, a middle-income country of extraordinary natural beauty, is one of the most advanced nations in South Asia. The Maldives consists of an archipelago of nearly 1,200 islands and a population of approximately 400,000 inhabitants; 310,000 Maldivians and 90,000 expatriate...
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