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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...
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India’s Population: Past, Present and Future
Dyson, Tim - eSocialSciences - 2009
year 2026. In case of mortality, despite major health problems, the average life expectancy will continue to rise during …
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The Effects of Mortality on Fertility: Population Dynamics after a Natural Disaster
Nobles, Jenna; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Thomas, Duncan - eSocialSciences - 2014
Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population dynamics. The fertility … population-representative multilevel longitudinal data, a behavioral fertility response to mortality exposure is identified, both … response to an unanticipated mortality shock is investigated that resulted from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed …
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - eSocialSciences - 2007
framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural …
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The Syrian Christians of Kerala: Demographic and Socioeconomic Transition in the Twentieth Century
Zachariah, K.C. - eSocialSciences - 2010
comprising fertility, mortality, and migration. [Working Paper No. 322] …
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Approximate Poverty
Williams, David - eSocialSciences - 2007
The changed survey methodology of the 55th round (and the consequent furore that has ensued) has demonstrated that there is indeed uncertainty surrounding estimates of poverty. The uncertainties concern the analysis of the NSS data, the poverty line benchmarks and the data themselves. This...
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Work Participation Rates in Madhya Pradesh : Comparison of Estimates based on Census and NSSO
Verma, Sheetal - eSocialSciences - 2007
Census data and NSSO for relevant periods and compares these trends in the same with all-India trends for the corresponding …
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Can ‘Beautiful’ Be ‘Backward’? India’s Tribes in a Long-Term Demographic Perspective
Maharatna, Arup - eSocialSciences - 2009
The paper examines the present condition of tribals in India with a demographic perspective. Construction of a long-term demographic perspective on India’s tribal population rests on the premise that aggregation over diverse tribal groups is valid not only in statistical and quantitative...
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Living Arrangement and Capability Deprivation of the Disabled in India
Chakraborty, Achin; Mukherjee, Subrata - eSocialSciences - 2014
Census 2001. [IDS Occasional paper 41]. …
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An Investigation into Changes in Nagaland's Population between 1971 and 2011
Agrawal, Ankush; Kumar, Vikas - eSocialSciences - 2013
context, the paper examines the census population estimates for internal consistency. It also tries to validate the census …
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