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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …
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Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia
Grimm, Michael; Sparrow, Robert; Tasciotti, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian … results suggest that the subsequent effects on fertility account for about 18 to 24 percent of the overall decline in the … fertility rate, depending on the specification. A key channel through which electrification affects fertility is increased …
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The Economics of Grief
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595571
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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...
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Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Sunde, Uwe; Cervellati, Matteo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern … growth regime in which lower net fertility is associated with the acquisition of human capital and improved living standards …
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Surviving the Genocide: The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide on Child Mortality
Ciani, Federico; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Between April and July 1994 Rwanda experienced a tremendous wave of inter-ethnic violence that caused at least 500,000 deaths. Combining birth history data drawn from the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey with prefecture-level information on the intensity of the conflict, we examine the...
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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
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Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality
Pham, Thong Le; Kooreman, Peter; Koning, Ruud H.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large rural-urban mortality difference exists, but much more so for boys than for girls. A higher education...
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Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh
Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where adolescent childbearing is of particular concern. We argue that effective use of specific health inputs could however significantly lower child mortality rates even among adolescent...
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Birth Spacing, Fertility Selection and Child Survival: Analysis Using a Correlated Hazard Model
Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
If fertility reflects the choice of households, results of their choice (duration between successive births and health … overlook the effects of fertility selection on child health, this paper argues that not accounting for this selection issue … when we do not account for fertility selection. Additionally the correlated hazard estimates that we present here better …
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