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Can Elected Minority Representatives Affect Health Worker Visits? Evidence from India
Kaletski, Elizabeth - 2014
, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049065
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Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2012
This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for assigning care to patients, such as the classification of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW), which assigns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099708
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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
China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) linked with the 2014 CHARLS Life History Survey. We use a range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832599
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Re-Examining Supplier-Induced Demand in Health Care : Comparisons Among Patients Affiliated and Not Affiliated with Healthcare Professionals in China
Si, Yafei; Zhou, Zhongliang; Chen, Xi - 2021
professionals. Using the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) in 2014, we identified 806 patients affiliated with healthcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315161
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Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years …. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services … provider in China, we applied a multilevel linear model and a geographically weighted regression to examine spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346209
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Intensity of Time and Income Interdependent Multidimensional Poverty : Well-Being and Minimum 2DGAP – German Evidence
Merz, Joachim - 2011
Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119297
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Poverty's Deconstruction : Beyond the Visible
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2017
In contrast to his contribution to other areas, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay's contributions to our understanding of poverty are often thought of as indirect consequences of the main themes of his work. Yet in more than 15 published papers Gangopadhyay directly takes on poverty, including its...
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Disability and Multi-Dimensional Quality of Life : A Capability Approach to Health Status Assessment
Anand, Paul - 2019
This paper offers an approach to assessing quality-of-life, based on Sen's (1985) theory, which it uses to understand loss in quality-of-life due to mobility-impairment. Specifically, it provides a theoretical analysis which is able to account for the possibility that some functionings may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860522
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Capabilities and Skills
Heckman, James J. - 2016
This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development brings insights about the dynamics of skill accumulation to an otherwise static literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987689
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Remittances and Children's Capabilities : New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008
Kroeger, Antje - 2012
The Kyrgyz Republic is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world; from a Balance of Payments measure of remittances, it ranked tenth in the world in 2008 in the ratio of remittances to GDP, a rapid increase from 30th place in 2004. Remittances can be used to maintain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111182