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Child health, its dynamic interaction with nutrition and health memory – Evidence from Senegal
Rieger, Matthias; Wagner, Natascha - In: Economics & Human Biology 16 (2015) C, pp. 135-145
Child malnutrition is pervasive in developing countries and anthropometric measures such as weight-for-height and height-for-age have proven reliable indicators of short term malnutrition and stunting. Rather than studying these indicators separately, we look at their interaction and carve out...
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A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation into Consumers' Brand Choice Process under Information Uncertainty.
Talukdar, D. - William E. Simon Graduate School of Business … - 1995
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Determinants of Child Morbidity and Factors Governing Utilisation of Child Health Care: Evidence from Rural India
Chakrabarti, Anindita - Madras School of Economics - 2011
Acute respiratory infections and diarrhoea globally identified as poising major threats to survival of children under the age of five. This is also true for India, where these two diseases have been the major causes behind infant mortality both in 1997 as well as 1998. Prevention as well as...
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Incidence and impacts of clinical mastitis in dairy cattle farms: case of Maharastra farmers
MK, Sinha; NN, Thombare - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
A cross sectional farm sample survey was conducted to assess the consequences of mastitis on farmer’s economy. Daily milk records of 187 animals from 28 farms were investigated by personal interview methods. Extra-resources used for the treatment and reduced revenues in terms of production...
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Malaria: An Early Indicator of Later Disease and Work Level
Hong, Sok Chul - Research Institute for Market Economy, Sogang University - 2011
The effect of early-life exposure to malaria on disability and work level in old age has been rarely studied. This study investigates this less explored question over the past one and a half century. First, using longitudinal lifetime records of Union Army veterans, I estimate that exposure to a...
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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone
Mocan, Naci H.; Cannonier, Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
increased educational attainment and that an increase in education has changed women's preferences. An increase in schooling …, triggered by the program, had an impact on women's attitudes towards matters that impact women's health and on attitudes … regarding violence against women. An increase in education has also reduced the number of desired children by women and …
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Patterns of Labour Market Insecurity in Rural India: A Multidimensional and Multivariate Analysis
Desikachar, Padmini; Viswanathan, Brinda - Madras School of Economics - 2011
, information on key dimensions of labour market insecurity are used, including labour force status according to longer and shorter … the database, the main results that stand out are: insecurity is more pervasive among women than men; insecurity is … prevalent among some self-employed but less severe than among casual labourers; and women who are illiterate, agricultural …
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The Freer the Fatter? A Panel Study of the Relationship between Body-Mass Index and Economic Freedom
Ljungvall, Åsa - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2013
Along with the economic and technological developments of the past decades, obesity has become a growing public health problem. This study empirically investigates whether the large and widespread increases in body-mass index (BMI) that have been observed around the world are related to economic...
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Modeling Health in a CGE Framework: A Case Study of India
Sahay, Nitesh; Cockburn, John; Pathak, Mitu - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2013
Health is considered to be an extremely important component of human welfare. By the time India gained independence in 1947, achievement of good health had become an important national goal in its own right. Nevertheless, a vast public health infrastructure in India comprising of 145,000...
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Patterns of Labour Market Insecurity in Rural India: A Multidimensional and Multivariate Analysis
Desikachar, Padmini; Viswanathan, Brinda - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2011
, information on key dimensions of labour market insecurity are used, including labour force status according to longer and shorter … the database, the main results that stand out are: insecurity is more pervasive among women than men; insecurity is … prevalent among some self-employed but less severe than among casual labourers; and women who are illiterate, agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010748098