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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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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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The relation between child labour and mother's work: The case of India
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2007
states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268139
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School attendance of children and the work of mothers: a joint multilevel model for India
Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; … - 2008
This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother´s working status when the … mother´s participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health … Survey (NFHS-2) for India, we find that, controlling for many covariates among which wealth is the most powerful predictor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268602
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Maternal autonomy and the education of the subsequent generation: Evidence from three contrasting states in India
Alfano, Marco; Arulampalam, Wiji; Kambhampati, Uma - 2011
of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time … by using proxy measures collected in the third round of the National Family Health Survey of India, on information … states in India - Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. Our results indicate that female autonomy is not associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280693
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The Evolution of Income-Related Health Inequalities in Switzerland over Time
Leu, Robert E.; Schellhorn, Martin - 2004
This paper presents new evidence on income-related health inequality and its development over time in Switzerland. We employ the methods lined out in van Doorslaer and Jones (2003) and van Doorslaer and Koolman (2004) measuring health using an interval regression approach to compute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262086
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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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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006
state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267499
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Changes in Korean wage inequality, 1980-2005
Kang, Byung-goo; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008
Korea is known not only for rapid economic growth but also relatively low wage inequality. It is one of the few countries in which wage inequality decreased during the 1980s, though in recent years wage inequality has increased. This paper studies what factors contributed to the changes in wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277326
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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