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Demographic alternatives for aging industrial countries: increased total fertility rate, labor force participation, or immigration

Holzmann, Robert - 2005

The paper investigates the demographic alternatives for dealing with the projected population aging and low or negative growth of the population and labor force in the North. Without further immigration, the total labor force in Europe and Russia, the high-income countries of East Asia and the...

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Population and health policies

Schultz, T. Paul - 2009

The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting biological and behavioral linkages from fetal development to late life mortality, chronic disease, and disability, though their implications for policy remain uncertain. Both macro-...

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Do cash transfers improve birth outcomes? Evidence from matched vital statistics, social security and program data

Amarante, Veronica; Manacorda, Marco; Miguel, Edward; … - 2011

There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a...

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Population policies, demographic structural changes, and the Chinese household saving puzzle

Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen - 2012

Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...

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Climate Shocks, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Protective Role of Climate-Resilience Projects

Guimbeau, Amanda; Ji, Xinde James; Menon, Nidhiya - 2024

This study investigates the impact of climate change on intimate partner violence in Bangladesh and shows that policy …-referenced meteorological remote-sensed data with information on women's agency from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys, we find that …, amplifying existing social and environmental vulnerabilities. Climate resilience projects funded by the Bangladesh Climate Change …

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Mending the Gap: Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo Medeiros, Diego - 2022

study the case of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was the 4th largest apparel supplier to the United States market in 2020. Recent … sector. The economy-wide male-female wage gap for less-educated workers in Bangladesh dropped by more than half with the … either changing minimum wage levels (that are not binding for apparel in Bangladesh) or other changes through time, and are …

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The Impact of Maternal Education on Child Immunization: Evidence from Bangladesh

Shahjahan, Md; La Mattina, Giulia; Ayyagari, Padmaja - 2022

Vaccine-preventable diseases remain a significant public health concern in Bangladesh. We examine the role of maternal …

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Delivering Remote Learning Using a Low-Tech Solution: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh

Wang, Liang Choon; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Islam, Asad; … - 2023

Bangladesh during the 2021 Covid-19 school closures. The intervention improved the test scores of children in literacy and …

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Social Norms and Female Labor Force Participation in Bangladesh: The Role of Social Expectations and Reference Networks

Bellani, Luna; Biswas, Kumar; Fehrler, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2023

About 50% of Bangladesh's female youth working-age population is not in employment, education, or training (NEET … goal in Bangladesh and other countries from the Global South. In this study, we analyze the social basis of support for … husbands regarding the role of females are a key obstacle to a higher labor force participation of young women in Bangladesh. …

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Ocean Salinity, Early-Life Health, and Adaptation

Guimbeau, Amanda; Ji, Xinde James; Long, Zi; Menon, Nidhiya - 2023

's anthropometric outcomes. Leveraging six geo-referenced waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys merged with gridded …

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