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Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
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Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top … of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic …
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mortality on children?s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be large only if there were very large … substantiated by the research on the degree of association between mortality and malnutrition. The study shows that although …
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To diagnose and treat preventable threats to maternal and neonatal health in Sub-Saharan Africa, a policy focus has been put on increasing coverage rates of targeted health services. Exploiting an experimental design, this study evaluates the impacts of an in-kind conditional transfer...
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Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …
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of total household inequality in Mexico is attributable to incomes derived from entrepreneurial activities, an income … Mexico during the 1990s. Moreover, the proportion of inequality attributable to education endowments increases during stable …
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effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to help induce Wal-Mart to enter Mexico. Once there, Walmex … and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an increasing share …
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Improved competitiveness is at the top of the agenda for Mexico as it moves to leverage economic progress made over the … in Mexico. They use four indicators of trade facilitation: port efficiency, customs environment, regulatory environment … it to the case of Mexico. The formula brings the below-average countries in the group half-way to the average for the …
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Mexico experienced a pronounced increase in the degree of inequality and earnings inequality over the 1980s and mid …
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A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
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