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This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
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Identifying the causal effect of prenatal maternal smoking on infant health is complicated by unobservable maternal characteristics and behaviors which are plausibly related to both birth outcomes and a mother’s propensity to smoke. Previous studies have addressed the omitted variables problem...
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Children accompanying their migrant parents for seasonal employment are the most “at risk” group of all in terms of … children. The socio-economic condition of the migrant workers and their children in the kilns, the problems faced by these … migrant children in accessing educational facilities, and the incidence of child labour have been explored. Effectiveness of …
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similar experiment with preschool children to assess their attitudes toward risk and found the children, like the monkeys, to … that though emotional states and predetermined prenatal testosterone can influence children’s preferences toward risk …
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This study provides an analysis of access to public services of ethnic minority children. The main data sets are from a … sample of the Population and Housing Census 2009. It will provide analysis of ethnic minority children’s welfares including … children’s welfares improved overtime, their welfare remain very low compared with Kinh children. …
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. Female’s labour force participation rises with increasing level of education. Presence of children in early age groups …
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other vulnerable children (OVC). …
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The current study extends the knowledge of cognitive processing of advertising messages by urban children in Pakistan …. Data were collected from 230 children in age bracket 7 - 12 years, drawn by using the cluster sampling approach. Structured … questionnaire using three point rating scale was used. Data analysis showed that children’s capability to understand, decode and …
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This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 …-2 years of age, with a view to studying two aspects of the neglect of children: their likelihood of being immunised against … on whether or not their mothers were literate: there was no gender discrimination between children of literate mothers …
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Prenatal exposure to smoking and alcohol-use is found to be correlated with various adverse consequences for children … relationship between prenatal substance use and children’s behavior problems using data from the Children of the National … Longitudinal Survey (CNLSY). Specifically, we investigate whether prenatal cigarette use and alcohol-use affect children’s behavior …
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