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Live aid revisited: long-term impacts of the 1984 Ethiopian famine on children

Dercon, Stefan; Porter, Catherine; Porter, Maria - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it one of the worst in recent history. The mortality impacts are clearly significant. But what of the survivors? This paper provides the first estimates the long-term impact...

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The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China

Knight, John; Shi, Li; Quheng, Deng - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Why is it that couples who have a son or whose last child is a son earn higher conditional income? To solve this curious case we tell a detective story: evidence of a phenomenon to be explained, a parade of suspects, a process of elimination from the enquiry, and then the denouement. Given...

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Women`s Organisations, Maternal Knowledge, and Social Capital to Reduce Prevalence of Stunted Children - Evidence from Rural Nepal

Imai, Katsushi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

This study analyses behaviour of women community based organisations in two districts in Nepal in reducing prevalence …

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When Smaller Families Look Contagious: A Spatial Look at the French Fertility Decline Using an Agent-Based Simulation Model

Gonzalez-Bailon, Sandra; Murphy, Tommy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

to experience a systematic decline in fertility, a decline that took place in a very distinctive geographical pattern … fertility (Bretagne and the Massif Central) shrank until they more or less disappeared in the early 1900s. In an attempt to … social influence in fertility decisions. We assess how different behavioural assumptions and network topologies cause …

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Estimating Fertility Responses to Expectations: Evidence From the 1958 British Cohort

Bono, Emilia Del - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

The aim of this work is to explore the relationship between unemployment and fertility. The hypothesis we investigate … is that unemployment affects fertility decisions by influencing individual`s expectations of future job opportunities and … and future job opportunities are relevant in explaining fertility patterns. In particular, higher expected wage levels …

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Pre-Marital Fertility and Labour Market Opportunities: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study

Bono, Emilia Del - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risk harzard model of fertility and cohabitation … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …

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Health, Nutrition and Acadmic Achievement: New Evidence from India

Monk, Courtney; Kingdon, Geeta - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

Using new and unique panel data, we investigate the role of long-term health and childhood malnutrition in schooling outcomes for children in rural India, many of whom lack basic numeracy and literacy skills. Using data on students' performance on mathematics and Hindi tests, we examine the...

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Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health

Fenske, James; Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

We show that psychological well-being in adulthood varies substantially with circumstance in early life. Combining a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we find that a one standard deviation rise in the cocoa price in early...

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Evaluating Treatment Protocols using Data Combination

Bhattacharya, Debopam - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012

In real-life, individuals are often assigned to binary treatments according to existing treatment protocols. Such protocols, when designed with â€œtaste-basedâ€ motives, would be productively inefficient in that the expected returns to treatment for the marginal treatment recipient...

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Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS

Dercon, Stefan; Beegle, Kathleen - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

This paper uses a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both short and long-run consumption growth of surviving household members. Using unique data which tracks individuals from 1991 to 2004, we examine consumption growth, controlling for a set of...

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