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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980027
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170185
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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] …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671986
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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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The UNESCO Parsi Zoroastrian Project
eSocialSciences - 2008
the community is jammed. The census of 2001 came with the opportunity for Parsis, because for the first time census was …
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Overview of School Education in Delhi
Gupta, Soumya - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper presents an overview of school education in Delhi. [Working Paper No. 0068]
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Can Mangroves Minimize Property Loss during Big Storms? An Analysis of House Damage due to the Super Cyclone in Orissa
Das, Saudamini - eSocialSciences - 2010
combining GIS data with census information, the paper examines the mangrove mediated effects on residential property in the …
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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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Targeting and Distribution of Post-Tsunami Aid in Sri Lanka : A Critical Appraisal
Gunawardena, Asha; Wickramasinghe, Kanchana - eSocialSciences - 2011
for this study comes from the Census of Tsunami, conducted by the Department of Census and Statistics in 2005, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002314