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Affluence, Obesity and Non-Communicable Diseases in India
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
Recent high rates of economic growth in India have been accompanied by major dietary transitions. Using a nationwide … household survey, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper estimates the impact of such transitions on the incidence of … non communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, coronary heart disease and cancer in India. The estimated deaths from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469836
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Gender wage gap in Vietnam 1993 - 98
Liu, Amy Y.C. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2003
This paper uses the Vietnam Living Standards Surveys 1992–93 and 1997–98 to examine changes in the gender wage gap. The intertemporal decomposition of Juhn et al. (1991) indicates that changes in observed variables, skill prices and wage inequality have tended to narrow the gap, but the gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464928
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The Consequences of Child Market Work on the Growth of Human Capital
Sim, Armand A; Suryadarma, Daniel; Suryahadi, Asep - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
Child labor is a phenomenon that has attracted a great amount of attention and research. Theoretical propositions suggest that child labor is inefficient if it adversely affects future earning ability. This paper contributes to the literature on the effects of child market work on human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274835
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The Effect of Childhood Migration on Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in Indonesia
Resosudarmo, Budy; Suryadarma, Daniel - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
Developing countries are experiencing unprecedented levels of urbanization. Although most of these movements are motivated by economic reasons, they could affect the human capital accumulation of the children who follow their parents to the cities. This paper estimates the causal effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008861957
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Calorie Thresholds and Undernutrition in India, 1993–2004
Kaicker, Nidhi; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
In a recent study, Jensen and Miller (2011) propose a new measure of undernutrition, based on a calorie share of staples threshold. Among the merits of this measure are that (i) it dispenses with calorie norms, and (ii) relies on a behavioural approach to estimate this threshold. What our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274826
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India's Gender Bias in Child Population, Female Education and Growing Prosperity: 1951–2011 with Projections to 2026
Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
Using Census and NSS data this paper studies the evolution of Gender Bias (GB) in the age group 0–6 in India and its … until 2026. The paper also demonstrates that there are wide variations in GB across various states, even districts, of India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318170
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Child Poverty, Demographic Transition and Gender Bias in Education in India: Household Data Analysis (1993–94 and 2004–05)
Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951–2001) and those from NSS … over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women … bias in education and argue that for approximately half of India's children the Right to Education Act must involve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364039
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An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Public Expenditures on Education and Health on Poverty in Indian States
Jha, Raghbendra; Biswal, Bagala; Biswal, Urvashi D. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2001
activities have been effective in reducing poverty in India. To ensure sensitivity and robustness of the results, three different … fourteen Indian states from 13th to 53rd rounds of National Sample Survey of India are used for estimating poverty. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106823
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India: Public Works versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra; Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008
food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005106841
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The Determinants of Household Level Fertility in India
Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
decisions of households, and regional and ethnic factors on patterns of household level fertility in India. These have helped … determine the composition of India's young (aged 9 to 34) today. Demographic transition is well underway in India with rising … across various groups in India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762616