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Family Migration: A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Konseiga, Adama - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703408
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Family migration: a vehicle of child morbidity in the informal settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Konseiga, Adama - 2008
context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268526
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Gender patterns in Vietnam's child mortality
Pham, Thong Le; Kooreman, Peter; Koning, Ruud H.; … - 2011
We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large rural-urban mortality difference exists, but much more so for boys than for girls. A higher education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278685
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Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality
Pham, Thong Le; Kooreman, Peter; Koning, Ruud H.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large rural-urban mortality difference exists, but much more so for boys than for girls. A higher education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024607
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Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh
Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10005566471
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How distance to a non-residential parent relates to child outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012
are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … health outcomes. Failing to control for endogeneity biases the results in favor of more proximate parents. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289970
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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu-por - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282616
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Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Ksenia; … - 2013
This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319599
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Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Ksenia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240235
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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: meta-analytic evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269575