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Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina’s Downturns

Cruces, Guillermo; Gluzmann, Pablo; Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001–02) on health and education outcomes. The identification strategy relies on both the inter-temporal and the cross-provincial co-variation between changes in regional GDP and outcomes by...

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Permanent Effects of Economic Crises on Household Welfare: Evidence and Projections from Argentina’s Downturns

Cruces, Guillermo; Gluzmann, Pablo; Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The quantification of the impact of crises on household welfare and socioeconomic outcomes is a fundamental input for the design of ex ante safety nets and ex post alleviation programs. Economic downturns have direct effects through employment and household income, but whether these and other...

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Parents as stakeholders: Their expectations in individualized education plan for special education

Mislan, Nora; Kosnin, Azlina Mohd; Yeo, Kee Jiar; Rio … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

investigate parents' expectations towards the implementation. To gather data, semi-structured interviews are deployed to seven … teaches and five parents while questionnaires are given to 17 teachers and 26 parents. The findings show that parents are … the teachers. These results mean that misunderstanding could surface between both the teachers and parents. Therefore …

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Aides aux parents âgés et allocation intra-familiale

Jellal, Mohamed; wolff, François charles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

In this paper, we examine how children care for their elderly parents and the motives of these family transfers …, accounting for interactions between parents and their different children. We study a theoretical model of intergenerational … transfers based on altruism, where siblings care for their parents (a public good). Decisions of upstream assistance are …

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Measuring human wellbeing in Pakistan: objective versus subjective indicators

Haq, Rashida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The concern for measuring wellbeing objectively and subjectively is found in modern political philosophy. This study explores objective indicators versus subjective perceptions of human wellbeing in ranking of survey data for districts of Pakistan. Data used for the analysis is ‘The Pakistan...

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Isobenefit Urbanism and Isotropic Societies for visionary futures. Equations against unideal cities.

D'Acci, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The quintessence of the Isobenefit Urbanism presented here, is to offer fair, walkable and green cities. Its three cornerstones are Modernity, Humanity and Naturality, which are exposed by five principles. The latter, rather then describe The ideal city, which doesn’t exist outside our own...

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The Significance of the Individuals’ Time for Economic and Social Development

Istrate, Georgeta-Marinela; Caragea, Nicoleta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In the globalization context, the last decades have changed the national economies, and also affected the time allocation patterns for individuals and for the entire society. As an economic resource, time is perceived very different by people, because of various individuals’ norms and values,...

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World Database of happiness: Example of a focused ‘Findings Archive’

Veenhoven, Ruut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Social scientists are producing an ever growing stream of research findings, which is ever more difficult to oversee. As a result, capitalization on earlier investment declines and accumulation of knowledge stagnates. This situation calls for more research synthesis and interest in synthetic...

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Documento de trabajo. El sistema metrocable linea k y su impacto en la calidad de vida de la población de la comuna uno en la ciudad de medellín entre los años 2004-2008

Zapata, Anzoategui; Camilo, Juan; Roldan, Vásquez; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Quality of life measured by the transportation system of a region becomes a significant variable in the development of individuals, which as a whole reflect the development of a locality. The motivation of this research focuses on the importance of the transport system Metro Cable Line K and...

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Documento de trabajo. El impacto en el desarrollo local de las políticas educativas en el municipio de medellín entre 2004 – 2011.

Zapata, Anzoategui; Camilo, Juan; Roldan, Vásquez; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study is inspired by determining the scope of the public policy of the city of Medellín in the education component and its impact on the index of quality of life of its citizens. Progress identified in the local development of the city taking as a reference the policies implemented in...

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