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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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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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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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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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Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: Experimental evidence from Malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters

Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and occupational choice of workers in these sectors by reducing physical capacity. This study...

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The height production function from birth to maturity

Cao, Elisabetta De - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

Height is the result of a complex process of growth that begins at birth and reaches the end in early adulthood. This paper studies the determinants of height from birth to maturity. A height production function is specified whose structure allows height to be the result of the accumulation...

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Early Life Circumstance and Mental Health in Ghana

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

We study the origins of adult mental health using early life income fluctuations. Combining a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we show that a one standard deviation rise in the cocoa price in early life decreases the...

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Oil and Ethnic Inequality in Nigeria

Fenske, James - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2015

individual's birth year predict positive relative outcomes, including reduced fertility, delayed marriage, higher probabilities …

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