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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?
Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among 'comparable' households. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666789
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VIllage Economics and the Structure of Extended Family Networks
Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Rangel, Marcos A; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512432
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One Hundred years of Economic Change in Bengal: Re-visiting the Economic Life of a Bengal District
Raihan, Selim - eSocialSciences - 2011
Through the use of secondary data, field visits and focus group discussions, this study explores the dynamics of the evolution of the economic life in Greater Faridpur over the last 100d years (1910-2010). Such investigation suggests that there have been large increases in population and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321448
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Lives and Livelihoods on the Streets of Dhaka City: Findings from a Population-based Exploratory Survey
Ahmed, Syed Masud; Islam, Qazi Shafayetul; Hossain, Shamim - eSocialSciences - 2011
BRAC has long been working to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321461
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Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health
Bartram, Jamie; Cairncross, Sandy - eSocialSciences - 2010
the cycle of poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764245
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Women's Migration, Urban Poverty and Child Health in Rajasthan
Kumar, Maya Unnithan; MCNAY, K; CASTALDO, A - eSocialSciences - 2014
in Rajasthan, a state with one of the highest infant mortality rates in India. Urban poverty is significant in Rajasthan … with a fifth of the urban population living below the poverty line and in slums. Increasing numbers of poor migrants in … search of employment contribute to the rising levels of urban poverty in cities such as Jaipur, where the present study is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945312
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State Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India
Fan, Victoria; Karan, Anup; Mahal, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2012
catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.†The program and the districts are evaluated over time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945315
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Changes in Poverty Profile in China
Shi, Li - eSocialSciences - 2008
This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data … sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341833
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A Case-Control Study to Assess the Relationship Between Poverty and Visual Impairment from Cataract in Kenya, Philippines and Bangladesh
Kuper, Hannah; Polack, Sarah; Eusebio, Cristina; … - eSocialSciences - 2008
The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699041