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expenditure (cost) function. These index numbers require data only on prices and quantities over the time period or cross section …
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household spending were found to correspond to gender biases in mortality and enrolment outcomes as revealed in census data for …
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This study systematically maps, assesses and aggregates research relating to postnatal depression (PND) and poverty in low and lower middle income countries (LLMICs). Our search of 12 databases yielded 2202 articles, of which 47 items from 17 countries were included in our mapping. We highlight...
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This paper examines how older people living in rural Malawi explain and understand their sex lives. We present sex in this setting as a field in which broader understandings of ageing, aged identities, and conceptions of person- or adulthood in older age are played out and constructed....
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Objectives: To characterise the experiences of heterosexual men and women living with HIV post-diagnosis and explain these experiences in relation to their identity and sexuality. Design: Qualitative study using in-depth interviews and theoretically informed biographic disruption theory....
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I set out a new method for estimating true (Konüs) PPPs. Household consumption per head deflated by these PPPs answers the question: by how much must the average expenditure per head of poor country A be increased to enable the typical inhabitant of A to enjoy the same utility level as the...
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We estimate semiparametric Engel curves for rural Pakistan using a large household survey. This allows us to obtain consistent estimates of the effects of household size and composition on consumption patterns even when these demographic variables are correlated with an unknown function of...
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changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover …
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Russia. The primary estimation strategy adopted is the semi-parametric difference-in-difference with propensity score … score matching techniques and parametric fixed effects estimation models. …
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