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Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States
Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233756
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Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India
Hazarika, Gautam; Bedi, Arjun S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
children’s propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between … activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India’s South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822985
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Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763441
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Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status: Evidence from North Indian Villages
Bhattacharya, Manasi; Bedi, Arjun S.; Chhachhi, Amrita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women's employment status and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976901
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Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566487
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Sibling Death Clustering in India: State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity
Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
extent of state dependence in India, distinguishing this from family-level risk factors common to siblings. It offers a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762075