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Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children
Deaton, Angus; Stone, Arthur A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969330
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A Note on Happiness in Eastern Europe
Humpert, Stephan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Recent studies in economics of happiness focusing on the influence of different aspects of subjective well-being in transition countries. Here these countries are located in Eastern Europe. After aggregating a dataset which combines the World Values Survey and the European Values Survey, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565147
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New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Angrist, Joshua; Lavy, Victor Chaim; Schlosser, Analia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
look at the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720737
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An action plan to assess the current situation of maternal & newborn care at government health facilities in Jharkhand, India
Kumar, Sudesh; Singh, Janet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Maternal and child health care especially safe motherhood services are an important factor in the primary health care and are the responsibility of the government and ministry of health. Consolidating and strengthening health network and quality of primary health care is one of the priority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836062
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Child Rights Convention and its Implementation
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Child labour is one of the severe problems faced by developed and developing economies. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) adopted on 20 November 1989 and entered into force on 2 September 1990. Nevertheless the challenges faced by the children remained the same. In some of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836503
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Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia
Miller, Grant - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
countries reduce fertility or improve socio-economic outcomes. Despite suggestive associations, disagreement persists because … independently later in life. Although family planning explains only about 10% of Colombia%u2019s fertility decline, it appears to … have reduced the otherwise substantial costs of fertility control and may be among the most effective development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774729
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Some Socio-Economic Effects of Labour Migration on the Sending Country. Evidence from Romania
Roman, Monica; Voicu, Cristina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper presents the recent labor migration flows and trends and the impacts of these movements on Romanian economic and social life. After Romania joined the EU, the travel of Romanians inside the EU is totally free and they fructified this opportunity. There are important economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550569
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THE WOMEN EMPLOYMENT IN ERITREA – REFLECTIONS FROM PRE AND POST-INDEPENDENCE PERIOD
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The role of Eritrean women in thirty years war of independence brought major changes and reflects in the present demography and economy of Eritrea in the development arena. Their participation in the economy contributes to local production and income by filling the gaps left by men who died in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616582
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The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade
Lang, Kevin; Weinstein, Russell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using data from three cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, we investigate whether there were adverse consequences of teenage childbearing in the 1950s and 1960s, when most abortions were illegal, and access to the pill was limited. We find negative effects of teen motherhood on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709587
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Profilo Economico delle Donne nel Disagio Post-Partum. Un’indagine Empirica Presso l’ospedale Niguarda di Milano
Caruso, Raul; Agresta, Filomena; Sironi, Emiliano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The purpose of this work is the study of the personal characteristics of mothers who requested the child-care benefits of the project called “Fiocchi in Ospedale” in the days immediately following childbirth. The work is based on the results of a survey led at Niguarda Hospital in Milan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123519