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Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending : Evidence from the German States
Steiner, Viktor - 2006
We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our panel analysis of west German states (Laender) for the period 1985 to 2002 we find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and...
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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 …
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Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India
Hazarika, Gautam - 2006
children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between … activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India's South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper …
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The Elite and the Marginalised : An Analysis of Public Spending on Mass Education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2021
In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...
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Fatal Fluctuations? Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …
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The Health Costs of Coal-Fired Power Plants in India
Barrows, Geoffrey - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase …
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The Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in China and India : Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
Bloom, David E. - 2013
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …
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Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2021
specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health …
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Effect of Health Insurance in India : A Randomized Controlled Trial
Malani, Anup; Holtzman, Phoebe; Imai, Kosuke; Kinnan, … - 2022
We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...
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Public Expenditure, Demography and Growth : Theory and Evidence from India
Das, Pranab Kumar - 2016
countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the … physical infrastructure are conducive to rapid economic growth commensurate with the projected demographic dividends for India …
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