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on total energy expenditure. In addition, the 10 percent decline in the population share of children in the period raised … employment surveys are used to estimate the separate components of total energy expenditure related to metabolism and physical … average total energy expenditures considerably as children have much lower metabolic requirements and activity levels than …
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were to scale up their inspections. In this paper, extensive firm-level data from India are used to compare the compliance …
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women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data …
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Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education – high unemployment trap in developing … countries. Consequently, policy makers in these countries are extensively investing in skill development programs. However … field experiment in India that subsidizes the cost of learning spoken English, we find that full subsidy (compared to …
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vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the vocational training program DDU-GKY in India …
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the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon …"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between … months have lower anthropometric scores compared with children born during the fall and winter months. The authors propose …
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