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Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure
Azam, Mehtabul - 2011
India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and rural areas. In addition to the traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124785
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Are Urban-Rural Welfare Differences Growing in India?
Azam, Mehtabul - 2017
, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution … India Human Development Surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942118
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Does BMI Predict the Early Spatial Variation and Intensity of Covid-19 in Developing Countries? Evidence from India
Menon, Nidhiya - 2020
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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Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011 : A District Level Decomposition
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find … that between-state income differences account for the majority of between-district income inequality in rural India in 2011 …. However, in urban India within-state income differences explain most of the between- district inequality in 2011. We also find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993930
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Social Networks and Interactions in Cities
Helsley, Robert W. - 2011
We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic center of interaction, choose higher levels of interactions in equilibrium. As a result, the level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129915
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The NRU and the Evolution of Regional Disparities in Spanish Unemployment
Bande, Roberto - 2011
On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper provides evidence that refutes the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our analytical framework, which follows the chain reaction...
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Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment : A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data
Pastore, Francesco - 2012
This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is the sign of such relationship. In addition, the paper aims to assess the relative impact of inflow and outflow from unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096147
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Spatial Disparities in Hospital Performance
Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
Using a French exhaustive dataset, this paper studies the determinants of regional disparities in mortality for patients admitted to hospitals for a heart attack. These disparities are large, with an 80% difference in the propensity to die within 15 days between extreme regions. They may reflect...
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Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006
Liu, Hong - 2012
This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural children in China as well as how such disparities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106651
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Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012
This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over-representation of workers with particularly high and low skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107199