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Prevention of chronic diseases : reorienting primary health systems in India
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya; Tomar, Priyanka; Joshi, Pallavi - 2016
premature mortality. In India, 66 percent of all deaths are premature. The burden of premature mortality has shifted from child …-à-vis the former level. Nevertheless, primary health systems continue to focus almost exclusively on child mortality. They need … to make a health system transition and get engaged in the prevention of risk factors, morbidity and mortality related to …
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Do we need more women in power? : gender, public policy, and development in Bolivia
Yañez-Pagans, Patricia - 2014
This paper evaluates the impacts of increasing female representation in Bolivian municipal councils on public policy choices and welfare outcomes. By combining detailed administrative panel data on municipal expenditures and revenues together with electoral data, an innovative regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011287263
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Under the "cloak of invisibility" : gender bias in teaching practices and learning outcomes
Bassi, Marina; Blumberg, Rae Lesser; Mateo Díaz, Mercedes - 2016
This paper analyzes gender bias in teaching in low-performing schools in Chile. To carry out the analyses, the authors used videotaped classes for fourth graders and coded 237 tapings. Results show a general (although not uniform) bias in teachers' actions that resulted in less attention to...
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El efecto de la educación en las actitudes de género : evidencia experimental en educación secundaria en El Salvador
Bando Grana, Rosangela; Hidalgo, Nidia; Land, Austin - 2018
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The effects of tenure security on women’s empowerment and food security : evidence from a land regularization program in Ecuador
Schling, Maja; Pazos, Nicolas; Corral, Leonardo; … - 2023
This paper evaluates the impact of a rural land administration program in Ecuador on female empowerment and household food security. Using a double robust estimation that combines the difference-in-difference approach with inverse probability weighting, we explore whether receiving a...
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Human capital potential of India's future workforce
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015
. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as the future workforce is concerned. This paper discusses India … preprimary education. In conclusion, India will have to focus, inter alia, on early health and preschooling (soft skill …
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Does the quality of electricity matter? : evidence from rural India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2014
This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine …
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Do non-monetary prices target the poor? : evidence from a field experiment in India
Hoffmann, Bridget - 2016
This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011545165
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Climate variability, child labour and schooling : evidence on the intensive and extensive margin
Colmer, Jonathan - 2013 - First draft: June 2012
How does future income uncertainty affect child labour and human capital accumulation? Using a unique panel dataset, we examine the effect of changes in climate variability on the allocation of time among child labour activities (the intensive margin) as well as participation in education and...
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Social proximity and misinformation : experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India
Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2022
We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns and the persistence of misinformation. We implement a field experiment among a representative sample of slum residents in two major Indian cities...
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