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Birth Spacing and Neonatal Mortality in India: Dynamics, Frailty, and Fecundity

van soest, arthur; Bhalotra, Sonia - RAND - 2005

Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available. Information on …

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Fertility, Contraceptive Choice, and Public Policy in Zimbabwe.

Thomas, D.; Maluccio, J. - RAND - 1996

Zimbabwe has invested massively in public infrastructure since independence in 1980. The impact of these investments on demographic outcomes is examined using household survey data matched with two community level surveys.

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Child Mortality in Malaysia. Ethnic Differences and the Recent Decline.

Panis, C.W.A.; Lillard, L.A. - RAND - 1996

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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Areal and Socioeconomic Differentials in Infant and Child Mortality in Cameroon.

Defo, B.A. - RAND - 1996

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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Labor Market Transitions of Men and Women During an Economic Crisis: Evidence from Indonesia

Thomas, Duncan; Beegle, Kathleen; Frankenberg, Elizabeth - RAND - 2000

Indonesia is in the midst of a major financial, economic and political crisis. The immediate effects of the crisis on labor market outcomes are examined drawing on two rounds of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS), a longitudinal household survey collected in 1997 and 1998. Dire predictions...

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Family Bargaining and Welfare

Rubalcava, Luis; Thomas, Duncan - RAND - 2000

Recent research on household behavior suggests that, ceteris paribus, a woman's "power" within a household influences consumption and time allocation choices. From an empirical point of view, a central stumbling block in this line of inquiry has been identification of sources of "power" that can...

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Long-Term Financial Incentives and Investment in Daughters: Evidence From Conditional Cash Transfers In North India

Sinha, Nistha; Yoong, Joanne - RAND - 2009

mothers (sex ratio among live children, fertility preferences) and children (mother's use of antenatal care, survival …, nutritional status, immunization, schooling) using statewide household survey data on fertility and child health and constructing … female children as well as total desired fertility. They also find that parents increased their investment in daughters …

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A Review of Abortion Policy : Legality, Medicaid Funding, and Parental Involvement, 1967-1994.

Merz, J-F; Jackson, C-A; Klerman, J-A - RAND - 1996

Over the last three decades, abortion policy has been among the most contentious of political and legal issues in the … united States, In this period, every state has enacted laws and promulgated regulations relating to abortion - such as those … regarding the conditions under which abortion is legal, the provision of Medicaid funding for abortion, and requirements for the …

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Grossman's Missing Health Threshold

Galama, Titus J.; Kapteyn, Arie - RAND - 2009

The authors present a generalized solution to Grossman's model of health capital (1972), relaxing the widely used assumption that individuals can adjust their health stock instantaneously to an "optimal" level without adjustment costs. The Grossman model then predicts the existence of a health...

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Insights Into Heaping From Retrospective Breastfeeding Data.

Klerman, J.A. - RAND - 1996

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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