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COVID-19: Mortality, future years lost, and demographic structure. Italy and Kenya compared

Bell, Clive - 2020

COVID-19 causes extremely high mortality among the old. This motivates a comparison of the losses of future lifetime years and future lifetime years of work ensuing from a hypothetical 25,000 excess deaths in Italy, whose affluent population is one of the world's oldest, with those in Kenya,...

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Gender bias in education during conflict: Evidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...

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Marriage market responses in the wake of a natural disaster in India

Das, Shreyasee; Dasgupta, Shatanjaya - 2022

This paper examines the impact of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake on age at marriage and other assortative matching … document that the earthquake reduced the age at marriage for both men and women and decreased the likelihood of women marrying … highlight how the institution of marriage can induce long-lasting demographic changes after a natural disaster. …

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The demographic transformation of post-socialist countries

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2010

looks like Western Europe-below-replacement fertility rates, rising age at first marriage and first birth, and high and …, near-universal marriage and childbearing. The other facet of this demographic transformation is nearly unprecedented …

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