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The war in Iraq initiated in March 2003 triggered a wave of violence and turmoil in the country, exposing households to … the most affected. Using the different intensities of the conflict across areas and the age at exposure to the war among … cohorts, I analyze a possible causal effect of the war on nutritional outcomes of children. I use two empirical strategies …
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health facilities and the access of people to health care services in Vietnam. Medical facilities and staffs in public …The main objectives of this paper are to review policies on health services and to provide an assessment of public … establishments have been increasing. Health insurance has been expanded rapidly in the recent years. It is very encouraging that the …
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Prevention of disease is one of the main challenges to public health and the Bulgarian society in recent years. More … and more are data that prove, that the main risk factors for public health are associated with harmful effects of the …. Experts, dealing with the problems of public health, should offer the public a new look to health of the population to …
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This paper examines gender equality in three important aspects including education, health care and employment in … Vietnam. Data used in this paper are from the most recent Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys in 2004, 2006 and 2008. It … more likely than men in using outpatient and inpatient health care services. However, for people above 14 years old, men …
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during the late-1960s and early-1970s. The Vietnam War also contributed to the rise in the divorce rate at that time. The …
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During World War I (1914–1918) the birth rates of countries such as France, Germany, the U.K., Belgium and Italy … demographic impact of the War. Why did fertility decline so much? The conventional wisdom is that fertility fell below its optimal … level because of the absence of men gone to war. I challenge this view using the case of France. I construct and calibrate a …
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than those born in other areas of Japan before World War II. This implies that experiencing an historically traumatic event …
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World War I the more democratic countries spent more for military purposes than autocracies whereas the reverse is true …
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Modern political economies are distinguished from each other by the institutions that mediate actors’ interactions, falling somewhere along a spectrum between pure market and non-market mechanisms. But how did these institutions originally emerge? With regard to the financial sector, I argue...
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Nigeria was incorporated in 1914 when Frederick Lugard(First Governor-General) amalgamated the two British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and the Crown colony of Lagos into a single entity. The primary reason for almalgamation was economic rather than political. It is therefore,...
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