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A discussion about the declining sex ratio in India is given. The various reasons for declining sex ratio are outlined.
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This study contributes to the literature by estimating discount rate for environmental health benefits and value of statistical life of workers in India. The discount rate is imputed from wage-risk trade-offs in which workers decide whether to accept a risky job with higher wages. The estimated...
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% of this burden lies in low- and middleincome countries. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death globally for all …
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hospital based project on domestic violence to help understand the distress and helplessness that a person attempting suicide …Nearly a million people take their own lives every year, more than those murdered or killed in war. Suicide is a …
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Is there an impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level variation in … in the difference between female and male suicide rates, but an increase in both male and female suicides.[BREAD Working …
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The experience of childhood is increasingly urban. Over half the world’s people – including more than a billion children – now live in cities and towns. This report adds to the growing body of evidence and analysis, from UNICEF and partners, that scarcity and dispossession...
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) early school leaving; iii) risky sexual behavior leading to early childbearing and HIV/AIDS; iv) crime and violence; v …
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, robberies, arrests and confiscated crime guns. We find evidence of considerable frictions in the underground market for guns in …
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Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. The fertility … response to an unanticipated mortality shock is investigated that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure is identified, both …
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A new survey finds that only 17 drugs are under active development for maternal health indications, which is less than 3% of the pipeline in cardiovascular health (660 drugs). The international agencies have forgotten pregnant women. Given the unacceptably high number of maternal and perinatal...
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