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Most elderly parents in Indonesia coreside with their adult children. However, preliminary studies provide some …; Cameron 2000). This paper uses qualitative case studies of elderly parents and their adult children to examine the connection …
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Recall bias is a pervasive problem in the analysis of retrospective data (Shyrock et al., 1973; Ewbank, 1981). The problem is a recurrent concernin the litterature on the determinants of breastfeeding duration, its trend over time, and the effect of breastfeeding on infant mortality.
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This article examines the effects of poverty, public assistance, and family structure on school-age children's home …
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-being is causal. This paper reexamines the claim that parental divorce is detrimental to children's emotional well … Survey of Youth, 1979, and found that parental divorce is associated with a higher level of behavior problems in children …, the effect of parents' divorce substantially declines and its influence on their children's emotional well-being is not …
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This paper is focused on two issues. Firstly, to what extent can we explain the observed mortality decline and secondly, can we attribute the observed chinese advantage to demographic or behavioural factors?
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Using data form a nationally representative sample of more than 12,000births, this study assesses infant and child mortality differences in Cameroon by residence area, mother's education, ethnicity, marital status and union type, religion and inteplay of those factorson differentials mortality.
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This paper sheds light on the causal relationship between education and health outcomes. It combines three surveys …-Probit models, it finds causal evidence that more years of education lead to a lower probability of reporting poor health and lower …
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In this paper, the author assesses the population health effects in Malaysia of air pollution generated by a widespread … results show that the smoke haze from these fires had a deleterious effect on population health in Malaysia. …
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