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Philippine Labor Force Survey support that family arrangement to tighten commitment between daughters and parents keeps a high …
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Uganda—a country that combines a dominant agricultural sector with one of the highest fertility rates in the world. We found …Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor … that fertility has a sizable negative effect on household labor allocation to subsistence agriculture. Households with …
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"Survey and ethnographic methods have been combined in the evaluations of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs for the governments of Nicaragua and Turkey. This paper describes the quantitative and qualitative research designs for these evaluations, discusses the relative benefits of...
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significantly reduced height and weight for age, relative to their siblings. Rather than reducing abortion, this policy increased …
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human fertility. Little comprehensive research, however, has been done on the effects of those technologies themselves on … human fertility leaving unanswered the question of whether particular types of agricultural technologies were actually … agricultural change (from 1961 to 1981) and changes in human fertility (from 1971 to 1981) to assess the impact of the former on …
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The population of the developing world has doubled since 1965 and now stands at 4.8 billion. This growth in human … place despite declining fertility rates and identify a number of factors. Well-designed population policies are broad in … discrimination against women and improve the lives of children, as well as those seeking to reduce fertility and population growth …
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This paper examines the impact over the life course of early childhood growth failure as measured by achieved height at 36 months. It uses data collected on individuals who participated in a nutritional supplementation trial between 1969 and 1977 in rural Guatemala and who were subsequently...
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