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Regional Heterogeneity and Fertility Behaviour in India
Rajan, S. Irudaya; Guilmoto, Christophe Z. - eSocialSciences - 2010
of non-demographic data, models of fertility determinants and district-wise mapping to test out the presence of regional … clustering. Regional analysis reveals that economic, social and health indicators display spatial patterns as strong as fertility … rates. All recent models of fertility incorporate a significant geographical component (using dummy regional variables or …
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Adolescent Fertility in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Effects and Solutions
McQueston, Kate; Silverman, Rachel; Glassman, Amanda - eSocialSciences - 2012
Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548435
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The Socio-Economic Determinants Behind Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality
Innovation, Indian Trust for; ITISC, Social Change - eSocialSciences - 2009
A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and Maternal Mortality Rate.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496178
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Women’s Economic Empowerment as the “Magic Potion†of Development?
Blumberg, Rae Lesser - eSocialSciences - 2008
Boosting women’s relative control of income and other economic resources has so many consequences that positively enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion.†[Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of...
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Suicide and Property Rights in India
Anderson, Siwan; Genicot, Garance - eSocialSciences - 2012
Is there an impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level variation in legal changes to women's property rights, it is shown that better property rights for women are associated with a decrease in the difference between female and male suicide...
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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater …
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Short-term Migration and Consumption Expenditure of Households in Rural India
Chandrasekhar, S.; Das, Mousumi; Sharma, Ajay - eSocialSciences - 2014
in consumption expenditure across households with and without a household member who is a short-migrant. [IGIDR WP-2014-009]. …
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Cities with Suburbs: Evidence from India
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam - eSocialSciences - 2009
attention of the literature. I focus on this sparsely studied issue in this work. Population, household and employment density … gradients for India's UAs, using Mills' two-point technique are calculated. Next, population, household and employment gradient …
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What Determines the Success and Failure of ‘100 Days Work’ at the Panchayat Level? A Study of Birbhum District in West Bengal
Mukherjee, Subrata; Ghosh, Saswata - eSocialSciences - 2010
household or in distributing the benefits of work in favour of the marginalised population (such as Scheduled Castes and …
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Facts about Adolescents from the Demographic Survey- Statistical Tables for Program Planning: Nepal 1996
Council, Population - eSocialSciences - 2010
Tables are created to more clearly describe the diversity of the adolescent experience by drawing on the rich Demographic and Health Survey data. [Pop Council].
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