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A socioeconomic disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index

D'Souza, Ritika; Gatti, Roberta; Kraay, Aart - 2019

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …

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Taking power : women's empowerment and household well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa

Annan, Jeannie; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019

how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …

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Measuring human capital in Europe and Central Asia

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Torre, Iván - 2020

This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and … health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand … by adding a measure of quality-adjusted years of higher education to the original education component, and it includes …

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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender...

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Intergenerational social mobility based on the investments in human capital : evidence of the long-term results of PROSPERA in health

Gutiérrez, Juan Pablo; Shamah Levy, Teresa; Bertozzi, … - 2019

health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …

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Children need clean water to grow : E. Coli contamination of drinking water and childhood nutrition in Bangladesh

Joseph, George; Haque, Sabrina S.; Moqueet, Nazia; Hoo, … - 2019

Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions are increasingly recognized as essential for improving nutritional outcomes in children. Emerging literature describes the negative effects of poor sanitation on child growth. However, limited evidence has shown a link between water quality and...

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Obesity and food away from home : what drives the socioeconomic gradient in excess body weight?

Strupat, Christoph; Farfán, Gabriela; Moritz, Laura; … - 2019

Rising obesity rates are one of the most challenging public health issues in many emerging economies. The extent to which the nutritional composition of food consumed away from home is behind this rise, and the links with socioeconomic status, is not yet well understood. This paper explores this...

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The Utilization-adjusted Human Capital Index (UHCI) : background paper the Human Capital Index 2020 update

Pennings, Steven - 2020

The World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI) is based on the productivity gains of future workers from human capital accumulation. But in many developing countries, a sizeable fraction of people are not employed, or are in jobs in which they cannot fully use their skills and cognitive abilities to...

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Replication redux : the reproducibility crisis and the case of deworming

Ozier, Owen - 2019

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...

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Acess to Treatment and Educational Inequalities in Cancer Survival

Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - CESifo - 2013

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...

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