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The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in …
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Much of the socioeconomic mobility achieved by U.S. immigrant families takes place across rather than within generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is therefore important to analyze differences not just between the foreign-born and U.S-born, but also across...
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New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult women. [WOrking Paper No. 41]. URL:...
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BRAC has long been working to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social …
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had the same level of permanent income prior to 1982 when some of the fathers were displaced. We demonstrate that job loss … leads to large permanent reductions in family income. Comparing outcomes among individuals whose fathers experienced an … children whose family income was at the bottom of the income distribution, and are robust to a number of specification checks. …
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, uninsurable idiosyncratic income risk, borrowing constraints, and endogenous wage and interest rate determination in general …
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The study attempts to empirically examine whether the adoption of organic farming practices leads to better health. As a proxy for health status, a comparison of the health expenditure patterns of organic and conventional rice-farming households in North and Northeast Thailand is done. Using...
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Budget speech by finance minister Dr. Thomas Issac
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household income at the time of the mother's birth is also predictive of low birth weight and that there is an interaction … intergenerational correlations in health could play a role in the intergenerational transmission of income. Parent's income affects … child health, and health at birth affects future income. …
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besides the existing ones. This study attempts to explore whether and how the income earning capability of the Shasthya … study also brings out the determinants of income Shasthya Shebikas and also the motivation for their work in general … provide socially beneficial services was also important. With respect to a number of factors affecting the Shebika’s income …
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