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What are the effects of childhood immunization program (UIP) on women's fertility and birth spacing? I examine the … effect of this immunization program on women's subsequent fertility and birth spacing by exploiting district … reduces the likelihood of subsequent and cumulative fertility of women and increases the birth intervals between first and …
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. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in western Europe, labor productivity improves, fertility falls and … die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality … that life expectancy at birth is a poor indicator of population health unless morbidity falls with mortality. …
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This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility … in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by social pressure in the post-war generation. This was …
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This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621799
This study explored how social pressure related to parental preference for the sex of their children affects fertility … for the post-war generation. Results suggest that social pressure related to giving birth to a son led to high fertility … in the pre-war generation; however, fertility was not influenced by social pressure in the post-war generation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805049
The main focus of this paper is to investigate the long run co-integration and short run dynamics between fertility … that long run co-integration and short run dynamics exist between total fertility rate and Human Development Indicators … birth prove the negative and significant impact on fertility, while GDP per capita indicated the positive but insignificant …
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policies affecting fertility, migration and human capital accumulation on growth and poverty alleviation. It underlines the … the return to education would trigger a virtuous cycle of fertility control, investment in education, poverty alleviation …
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This paper examines the gender distribution of the benefits of economic growth in several Asian economies from 1970-90. Using Borda rank ordering, we compare the progress made in these countries towards closing the gender gap in well-being. In addition to commonly-used indicators, trends in the...
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endogenous fertility. It is shown that development traps due to under investments in health can never appear when fertility is an …
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conventional overlapping generations model of neoclassical growth extended with endogenous longevity and endogenous fertility. The …
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