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The dynamics of women's labour supply in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …

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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time: the impact of remittances on the fertility rate

Naufal, George S.; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009

In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...

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Air Pollution and Infant Health : What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?

Currie, Janet; Neidell, Matthew - 2004

We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater levels of pollution. In contrast, the experience of California in the 1990s is clearly relevant to...

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Reassessing the standard of living in the Soviet Union: an analysis using archival and anthropometric data

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2006

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade

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From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2005

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself is important or whether it simply reflects other...

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Understanding the effects of siblings on child mortality: evidence from India

Makepeace, Gerald; Pal, Sarmistha - 2006

Given the intrinsically sequential nature of child birth, timing of a child's birth has consequences not only for itself, but also for its older and younger siblings. The paper argues that prior and posterior spacing between consecutive siblings are thus important measures of intensity of...

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Family planning as an investment in development: evaluation of a program's consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh

Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2007

fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …

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Poverty, undernutrition, and child mortality: some inter-regional puzzles and their implications for research and policy

Klasen, Stephan - 2006

Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient …

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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 mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality at most ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer countries are scarce, and both income risk and...

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Human capital, mortality and fertility: a unified theory of the economic and demographic transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2007

This paper argues that accounting for the dynamic interactions between endogenous changes in longevity, the education composition of the population, and the associated fertility differential is crucial for understanding the economic and the demographic transition. In the model, heterogeneous...

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