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characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the health consequences of rising temperature and relative humidity and …
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and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations … groups – children of uneducated poor women living in rural India …
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Among countries with comparable levels of income, India has one of the more progressive disability policy frameworks …; however, people with disabilities in India are subject to multiple disadvantages. This paper focuses on state-level variations …
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engagement and work intensity on the weight of urban working women and men in India. Using nationally representative data, a …
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This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main … establishing countries were engaged in during India's colonial history. The results are robust to a series of checks for instrument … scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today …
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pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face …
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of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and regional characteristics, adult BMI …-risk populations in developing countries like India …
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on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial …
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We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio …-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus …
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Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …
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