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Many health care reform proposals expand insurance coverage without fundamentally changing the structure of health insurance. The stay-well plan used in Mendocino County, California, since 1979, offers an alternative insurance structure that provides direct incentives for consumers to control...
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This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand higher levels of human capital than in the past. As the...
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Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other … the India Human Development Survey, which provides a more recent source of data compared with the Census and other …-12, empirical analysis based on the India Human Development Survey highlights several socioeconomic factors associated with the …
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of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …
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methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …
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mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of the ability of girls and unfavorable school environment. There is some …
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Punjab, India, to assess the impact of a flagship sanitation program of the Government of India. The program, the Clean India …, eliminate the practice of open defecation, and improve the awareness and practice of good hygiene across rural India. It …
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This study examines the asset gains to households in Kerala, India, from two types of labor migration: moving overseas … versus moving within India for employment. It draws on panel data from waves of a representative household survey conducted …-migrants enables them to earn as much in low-skill jobs abroad as more educated workers relocating within India can …
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This paper analyzes the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88-2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying...
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