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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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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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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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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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Release of Socio-Cultural Tables-Age: Data Highlights
Registrar General, India - eSocialSciences - 2013
Age is one of the core topics in Census. In Census 2011, for the first time data on both date of birth and age has been … recorded. [Census 2011]. …
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How Backward are the Other Backward Classes? Changing Contours of Caste Disadvantage in India
Deshpande, Ashwini; Ramachandran, Rajesh - eSocialSciences - 2013
Using individual-level data from the National Sample Survey for 1999-2000 and 2009-2010, theur paper has done an empirical assessments of their socio-economic condition of OBCs, SC-STs. [CDE Working Paper No.233]. URL:[http://www.cdedse.org/pdf/work233.pdf].
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Living Rough: Surviving City Streets
Mander, Harsh - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper records the findings of a small investigation into a fragment of experiences of people living on streets and into the social, economic, nutritional situation of urban homeless men, women, boys and girls in four cities: the metropolises of Delhi and Chennai, and the cities of Madurai...
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National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy-2012 (NDSAP-2012)
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Science and Technology GOI - 2013
The National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy (NDSAP) is designed so as to apply to all sharable non-sensitive data available either in digital or analog forms but generated using public funds by various Ministries / Departments /Subordinate offices / organizations / agencies of Government...
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Budget for Children (BfC) in the Union Budget 2012-13
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2012
What the Budget of India, 2012-13 has got for children? [HAQCRC]. URL:[http://www.haqcrc.org/sites/default/files/BfC%202012-13_0.pdf].
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