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Ex Ante Inequality of Opportunity in Health Among the Elderly in China : A Distributional Decomposition Analysis of Biomarkers

Ding, Lanlin - 2020

We present a comprehensive analysis of ex ante inequality of opportunity (IOp) in health among Chinese adults aged 60+ and decompose the contributions of different sets of circumstances. Data are drawn from the 2011 and 2015 waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)...

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Parental Influences on Health and Longevity : Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Lindahl, Mikael - 2016

To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between...

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The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround

Kanbur, Ravi - 2017

This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and even turning down. The argument is made using a range of data sources and a range of measures and perspectives on inequality. The evolution of inequality is further examined...

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Pre- and Post-Birth Components of Intergenerational Persistence in Health and Longevity : Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Björkegren, Evelina - 2019

We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for health outcomes in the second generation: mortality,...

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Worth the Wait? The Effect of Early Term Birth on Maternal and Infant Health

Buckles, Kasey - 2016

attributed to changes in the demographic composition of mothers. We next exploit county-level variation in the timing of these …

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Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality : Recent Evidence from Bangladesh

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - 2021

This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where adolescent childbearing is of particular concern. We argue that effective use of specific health inputs could however significantly lower child mortality rates even among adolescent...

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Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children

Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021

Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...

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Maternal Autonomy and the Education of the Subsequent Generation : Evidence from Three Contrasting States in India

Alfano, Marco - 2011

of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time … by using proxy measures collected in the third round of the National Family Health Survey of India, on information … states in India – Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. Our results indicate that female autonomy is not associated with …

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Women, Children and Patience : Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages

Bauer, Michal - 2009

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …

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Do Family Planning Programmes Help Women's Employment? The Case of Indian Mothers

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2008

labour market. A unique, rich and representative data survey for all Indian states and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998-1999) allows … married women aged 15 to 49. Our results for urban and rural India show that the FP effect is significant in rural India, that … India, we compare this effect with that one of Governmental Policies (GP) supporting household income and promoting …

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