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Health Econometric: Uncovering the Anthropometric Behavior on Women's Labor Market
Lopez-Pablos, Rodrigo A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Exploring current literature which assess relations between cognitive ability and height, obesity, and its productivity … behavior on obese women to market entrance; besides, a good performance of women height as an unobserved approximation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787122
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Armed conflict and children's health - exploring new directions: The case of Kashmir
Parlow, Anton - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The exposure to violence in utero and early in life has adverse impacts on children's age-adjusted height (z … link between children's health at birth, mother's health during pregnancy, and children's height in the context of negative … jobs, and are sicker throughout their life. Here, children already negatively affected by the insurgency in their height …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108029
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The Interaction of Public Assets, Private Assets and Community Characteristics and its Effect on Early Childhood Height-for-Age in Peru
Escobal, Javier; Saavedra, Jaime; Suárez, Pablo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
direct and indirect impact of maternal education levels on height-for-age measurements. Their results clearly establish that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109365
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Gida harcamalar inin gelir içindeki payi yönünden satin alma gücünün değerlendirilmesi: Türkiye’nin bölgeselleştirilmiş illeri bazinda bir değerlendirme
Kalyoncu, Kahraman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Bu çalışmada gıda harcamalarının toplam gelir içindeki paylarına bakarak, bireyin ya da hane halkının reel gelirinin ya da satın alma gücünün artıp artmadığı sorusuna cevap aradık. Gıda harcamalarının bütçe içindeki payının azalmasını reel gelirin artmasının bir...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079334
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Poverty alleviation programs, FDI-led growth and child labour under agricultural dualism
Dwibedi, Jayanta; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper is aimed at providing a theoretical explanation why policies that affect only the supply side of the child labour problem may not be able to mitigate the incidence of child labour in a developing economy in terms of a three-sector general equilibrium model with agricultural dualism and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919745
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The microfinance of reproduction and the reproduction of microfinance: understanding the connections between microfinance, empowerment, contraception and fertility in Bangladesh in...
Duvendack, Maren; Palmer-Jones, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Microfinance (MF) and family planning (FP) are thought to be very important interventions in the promotion of human development and it has been suggested that MF has significant beneficent impacts on contraceptive adoption and fertility. Thus, several authors, e.g. Amin, Hill and Li (1995), Amin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223353
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Ethnic minority children’s access to public services in Vietnam
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study provides an analysis of access to public services of ethnic minority children. The main data sets are from a Baseline Survey of the Program 135-II in 2007, Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys 2004 and 2006, and the 15-percent sample of the Population and Housing Census 2009. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323458
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Household income as a determinant of child labor and school enrollment in Brazil: Evidence from a social security reform
Carvalho Filho, Irineu E. de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. We find that increased benefits are associated with increases in school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684898
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Maternal Migration and Child Well-Being in Peru
Escobal, Javier; Flores, Eva - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Migration affects not only those who migrate, but may also have intergenerational effects on their children. Looking at those mothers with a history of internal migration who are part of the Young Lives project, and comparing them with suitable controls, we find that mothers’ migration has had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108881
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Does Having a Newborn Child Affect Income Diversification Opportunities?: Evidence from the Peruvian Young Lives Study
Escobal, Javier; Suárez, Pablo; Huttly, Sharon; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The ability of households to diversify their income sources is strongly related to their capacity to cope in times of pressure, such as during economic crises. This is particularly so among the poor, who often do not have adequate resources on which to draw when under such pressures. Households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111082