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Fatal fluctuations? Cyclicality in infant mortality in India
Bhalotra, Sonia - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268267
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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330097
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The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - 2009
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276696
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Seasonal effects of water quality on infant and child health in India
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Menon, Nidhiya - 2012
and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations … groups - children of uneducated poor women living in rural India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282569
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Health and the political agency of women
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma - 2011
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286864
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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330095
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Got water? Social divisions and access to public goods in rural India
Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - 2011
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280655
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Loan regulation and child labor in rural India
Dasgupta, Basab; Zimmermann, Christian - 2012
We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289840
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Early childbirth, health inputs and child mortality: recent evidence from Bangladesh
Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268462
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Evaluation of the impact of the mother and infant health project in Ukraine
Nizalova, Olena Y.; Vyshnya, Maria - 2009
This paper exploits a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of the quality change in the labor and delivery services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269530