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"While providing the most reliable method of evaluating social programs, randomized experiments in industrial and developing countries alike are accompanied by political risks and ethical issues that jeopardize the chances of adopting them. Buddelmeyer and Skoufias use a unique data set from...
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, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socioeconomic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … (young) adults who worked as children. The authors find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, they …
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-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … positively linked to individual life satisfaction. This evidence supplements the scarce economic research on reference groups …
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Adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic group to target for successfully breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails a fleeting transition from childhood to adulthood,...
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The response on why to address mental health, lies on the fact that neuropsychiatric disorders account for an eleven … numbers of health workers, and providers in such areas. It is also suggested that demand for mental, and neurological services … needs to be voiced, through health education programs to combat the stigma, and raise awareness of what mental disorders …
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There is a youth mental health crisis in Lithuania. Mental health challenges have several delirious consequences for … the youth, including poor performance in school and negative outcomes later in life such as substance abuse, poor health … empirical diagnostic of the youth mental health service delivery chain, focusing on the education sector. The study was based on …
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This chapter introduces the main issues associated with population aging, many of which will be investigated in detail throughout the volume. The next section describes the demographic transformation that Brazil has been experiencing and highlights its specific features, including a very rapid...
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