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2011 we find that household wealth, mother's education, area of residence, and access to safe water and improved sanitation …
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link urban and rural nodes, children have remained less urbanized than adults, and many grow up without co-resident parents …. Although children are clearly affected by adult labour migration, they have tended to be ignored in the migration discourse. A … focus on children provides an unusual lens for considering migration dynamics and can help to advance an understanding of …
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male adults, female adults and children; the second extends the analysis to girls and boys. To improve the identification … household. In line with previous evidence on gender discrimination in Albania, the results show that the female shares of … increasing the share of men more than that of women) and worsen children's position, both when the family was left behind and …
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children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households … household survey data from 2019-20, which includes a detailed consumption module and anthropometric measures for children under … child nutrition before and after the pandemic. The results show that there has been a significant reduction in household …
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first and second leading causes of death and morbidity among young children in developing countries. The fact that a large … tested in a developing country context, and which focus on children as the primary target population. Overall, we find that …
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of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and …
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How unequal is the world today? Is global income inequality falling, as many economists claim, or is it rising, as one often hears? This paper reviews the arguments and evidence. A number of concerns about the underlying data are identified, with biases going in both directions. Conceptual...
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reduction in nutrition intake as a result of gift-giving can have a lasting detrimental health impact on their children. Using a … primary census-type panel household survey in 18 villages in rural China, this paper first documents the fact that child … height-for-age z-score of children born to poor families This finding sheds some light on the 'food puzzle' raised by Deaton …
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children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important … of paternal and maternal shocks on different cohort groups, roles of cognitive abilities of children and quality of …
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needed to provide core inputs for children's health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time … spent with children, which is also a critical input into children's development. The net impact is therefore theoretically … children's health and education in Indonesia. We mobilize several data sources to construct a dataset of more than 32 …
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