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Migration and Young Child Nutrition: Evidence from Rural China
Mu, Ren; de Brauw, Alan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their … parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …
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Health Insurance Impacts on Health and Nonmedical Consumption in a Developing Country
Wagstaff, Adam - 2010
insurance program impacted favorably on height-for-age and weight-for-age of young school children, and on body mass index among … adults. Their results suggest that among young children, VHI increases use of primary care facilities and leads to a … supplier of medicines prescribed by a health professional. Among older children and adults, VHI results in a marked increase in …
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What Is the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff when Maintaining Wells in Rural Haiti?
Aliprantis, Dionissi - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 2014
This paper quantitatively compares water infrastructure interventions that prioritize equity with those that prioritize efficiency. The community-based model developed by Haiti Outreach (HO) trains communities to operate and maintain wells, and has clear effi ciency gains over the status quo aid...
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Female Education, HIV/AIDS and Th e Education Vaccine in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Condoms Piece of the Puzzle
Brent, Robert J. - In: Journal of African Development 16 (2014) 2
There are many recent studies that indicate that female education and HIV are still positively related in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). So education is not a vaccine as claimed and there exists a puzzle that needs to be resolved. In this study, by focusing on the use and non-use of condoms by...
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HIV, wages, and the skill premium
Marinescu, Ioana - In: Journal of Health Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 181-197
The HIV epidemic has dramatically decreased labor supply among prime-age adults in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using within-country variation in regional HIV prevalence and a synthetic panel, I find that HIV significantly increases the capital–labor ratio in urban manufacturing firms. The impact of...
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When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming
Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward Andrew; Ahuja, Amrita; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We discuss how evidence and theory can be combined to provide insight on the appropriate subsidy level for health products, focusing on the specific case of deworming. Although intestinal worm infections can be treated using safe, low-cost drugs, some have challenged the view that mass...
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Demographic and Socio-economic Determinants of Smoking Behavior: Evidence from Vietnam
Nguyen, Cuong Viet - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2300-2312
Smoking is a leading cause for diseases and death. Information on factors affecting the smoking status is useful for policies on smoking reduction, especially in developing countries. This paper examines to what extent individuals' characteristics are correlated with the smoking status using a...
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Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States
Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
, or bigger, than the survival status of a preceding sibling is an indicator for mothers having attained secondary or …
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The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Social Safety Nets: What Can the Caribbean Expect?
Theodore, Karl; Foucade, Althea Dianne La - EconWPA - 2001
By the end of 1999 HIV/AIDS was present in at least 200 countries and approximately 34.3 million people were living with the disease, 5.3 million of whom had been infected in that year alone (WHO 2000). Approximately 21.8 million persons had died from AIDS by 2000 and countries where life...
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The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya
Thirumurthy, Harsha; Graff Zivin, Joshua; Goldstein, Markus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
supply of adult AIDS patients receiving treatment; and (2) labor supply of children and adults living in the patients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084573