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Living Arrangements and Support Relationships among Elderly Indonesians: Case Study from Java and Sumatra

Beard, Victoria A.; Kunharibowo, Yacobus - RAND - 2000

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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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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Poverty, Public Assistance, and Children in Intact and Single-Mother Families.

Hao, L. - RAND - 1996

This article examines the effects of poverty, public assistance, and family structure on school-age children's home …

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The Kids Are OK: Divorce and Children's Behavior Problems

Li, Jui-Chung Allen - RAND - 2007

-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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Does Head Start make a Difference?

Currie, J.; Thomas, D. - RAND - 1995

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Potential Health Impacts of Family Planning.

DaVanzo, J. - RAND - 1995

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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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