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India’s health care and health financing provision is characterized by too little Government spending on health, meager … level of health insurance penetration in India. Health insurance cover is found to be a strong determinant of modern health …
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Objectives: This study investigates how socioeconomic status and demographic factors determine child malnutrition as well as how these determinants account for socioeconomic inequality in child malnutrition during the period of 2007-2011 in Bangladesh. Methods: The dataset of this study...
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Despite a central element of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the progress in making pregnancy and childbearing safer for women has been slow in many developing countries. Though Bangladesh has achieved commendable progress in reducing maternal mortality in recent decades, the country...
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Using India’s National Sample Survey data on consumption expenditure by households this paper examines how access to … affordability of electricity services have fared under power sector reform programme that was pursued in the of State Orissa (India …
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Using self-assessed health status together with several indicators of individual morbidity and socio-demographic characteristics, we study the quality of health and income related health disparity in five racial/ethnic groups as well as across 17 geographic areas of New York State. The American...
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The effects of motherhood on women's labour force participation are estimated usually for mothers who are co … co-resident mothers in South Africa, not co-resident mothers are significantly more likely to be labour force … participants. The selection on co-residency, which excludes mothers who are labour migrants, therefore overestimates the negative …
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This paper uses same sex sibling composition as a strategy to identify the exogenous effects of childbearing on female labour force participation in South Africa. International studies typically find that sibling sex composition is strong instrument for childbearing, satisfying the two...
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There have been a variety of studies investigating the relative importance of structural change and real intensity change to the change in China’s energy consumption in the 1980s. However, no detailed analysis to date has been done to examine whether or not the increased energy efficiency...
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This paper analyses the role of institutional stratification within higher education (course length, fields of study and institutional quality) in mediating the relationship between social origin and labour market outcomes (wage and occupational status) in a comparative perspective. In the first...
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Complexity of the changes taking place in modern societies makes it is necessary to deepen the analysis of the impact of social inequality on the activity of old people. Dissemination of new technologies and organizational forms allows solving many social problems and improving the quality of...
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