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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691821
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The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries
Wheeler, David; Hammer, Dan - eSocialSciences - 2010
Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded … family planning and female education will suffer from financing deficits that will leave millions of women unserved in the … coming decades. Since both activities affect fertility, population growth, and carbon emissions, they may also provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740422
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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493864
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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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Delivering (sustainable) Services on Scale : Anywhere
Shukla, Prachi - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper addresses issues related to public private partnerships that can enable delivery of comprehensive health care to rural communities.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543084
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Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy: The Only-Child Disadvantage in School Enrollment in Rural China
Qian, Nancy - eSocialSciences - 2010
plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relax- actions in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of … family size on school enrollment of the …first child. The results show that for one-child families, an additional child signi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468427
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Health and Healthcare in Assam-A Status Report
Dutta, Indranee; Bawari, Shailly - eSocialSciences - 2010
This report is a comprehensive and analytical compilation of health care development of Assam bringing together all available information and data on health and health care.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480373
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Men's Participation In Reproductive Health: A Study Of Some Villages In Andhra Pradesh
Padma, G Rama - eSocialSciences - 2005
tractrelated health of women. Men’s participation in the present study is examined in terms of spousal communication on family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528233
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Reproductive Health Research Priorities in India: a Framework for Action
Agarwal, Dinesh - eSocialSciences - 2007
A research framework is proposed that needs to be pursued in order to achieve RCH goals in time bound manner. It is being argued that need for additional research inputs largely stems from the current gaps in programme performance [Paper presented at the Forum 9 conference].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699324