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Droughts and Malnutrition in Africa
Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2023
How costly are droughts to individuals’ nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite-based vegetation index observed bi-monthly for 0.08° grids between 1982 and 2015. Across 32 African countries, conditional on individual characteristics, timing relative to...
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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2020
When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...
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Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence - Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Kotsadam, Andreas - 2020
Ethiopia to randomly assign jobs to equally qualified female applicants. The job offers increase formal employment, earnings …
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Impact of Formal Climate Risk Transfer Mechanisms on Risk-Aversion : Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Haile, Kaleab K. - 2019
insurance (WICI) in Ethiopia. We use an endogenous switching (ESP) model to address self-selection and simultaneity bias …
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How Culture Shapes Choices Related to Fertility and Mortality : Causal Evidence at the Swiss Language Border
Faessler, Lisa; Lalive, Rafael; Efferson, Charles - 2023
preferences related to fertility and mortality, the two basic components of genetic fitness. We specifically select six referenda … related to health and fertility and analyse differences in the proportion of yes votes across municipalities on the two sides … preferences and choices related to individual health and fertility. These findings further suggest that at least one of the two …
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Preterm Births and Educational Disadvantage : Heterogeneous Effects Across Families and Schools
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna - 2019
Using Swedish population register data on cohorts born 1982-1994 (N=1,087,750), we examine the effects of preterm births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as...
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Globalization, Gender, and the Family
Keller, Wolfgang - 2020
due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and …-earning women in their late 30s contribute strongly to the gender difference in fertility because switching to new comparable …
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Fertility Changes and Replacement Migration
Aksoy, Yunus - 2020
significant negative statistical relationship between 16 years lagged fertility and the rate of immigration in a panel of 23 … countries, which indicates that immigration compensates for low fertility in the labor market …
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Family Planning and Climate Change
Gerlagh, Reyer - 2019
the interactions between climate change and population dynamics. We develop an analytical model of endogenous fertility …
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Fertility Cost, Intergenerational Labor Division, and Female Employment
Yu, Haiyue - 2019
China has set to increase the minimum retirement age, to ease the pressure from pension expenditure and the falling labor supply caused by the aging population. However, policy debates have so far neglected the crucial fact that families in China largely rely on retired grandparents for...
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