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Poverty, AIDS, and children's Schooling
Ainsworth, Martha - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523657
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Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in Sub-Saharan Africa
Filmer, Deon - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523742
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Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in the developing world
Wagstaff, Adam - 2000
Despite the development community's shift in emphasis toward the poor, malnutrition, like other dimensions of poor health, is concentrated among the worst off. Yet targets are still defined in terms of population averages. Consider, then, this information about malnutrition rates among different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010524290
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Sugar prices, labor income, and poverty in Brazil
Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2006
household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522186
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Month of birth and children's health in India
Lokshin, Michael - 2009
the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … months have lower anthropometric scores compared with children born during the fall and winter months. The authors propose … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394107
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Leveling the intra-household playing field : compensation and specialization in child labor allocation
V. Del Carpio, Ximena - 2009
"This paper analyzes changes in the allocation of child labor within the household in reaction to exogenous shocks created by a social program in Nicaragua. The paper shows that households that randomly received a conditional cash transfer compensated for some of the intra-household differences,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394116
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Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2009
surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394183
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Risks, ex-ante actions and public assistance : impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2009
"This paper examines the impacts of natural disasters on schooling investments with special focus on the roles of ex-ante actions and ex-post responses using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The importance of ex-ante actions depends on disaster risks and the likelihood of public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394203
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Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling and child health
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2008
? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they … may transmit poverty from one generation to the next. This paper uses a simple framework to analyze the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521058
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Migration, sex bias, and child growth in rural pakistan
Mansuri, Ghazala - 2006
very young children are particularly vulnerable to shocks that lead to growth faltering, with substantial long-term health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522116