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Early life health interventions and academic achievement
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Løken, Katrine V.; Neilson, … - 2012
This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627356
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How do pre-school and/or school-age children affect parents' likelihood of migration and off-farm work in rural China's minority regions?
Ding, Sai; Dong, Xiao-yuan; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2016
and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517636
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Growing into relative income poverty : urban China 1988 to 2013
Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2019
This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … 2013 urban residents in China changed their assessment of how much money that is necessary. Data from the China Household … urban China was more rapid in the middle segments of the income distribution that at it's lower segments. In 2013, at least …
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