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context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …
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Limited literature has been published on the association between environmental health indicators, life-style habits and ambient air pollution. We have examined the association of asthma prevalence and the amount of health investment with daily mean concentrations of particulate matter (PM) with...
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The empirical evidence of the effect of intergenerational coresidence by elderly parents and their adult children on …, with coresidence burdens on children creating disincentives for parents to invest in their health. Studying Japanese data … on the treated; and (iii) that parents with high care needs and limited resources, typically widowed mothers, are in …
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Limited literature has been published on the association between environmental health indicators, life-style habits and ambient air pollution. We have examined the association of asthma prevalence and the amount of health investment with daily mean concentrations of particulate matter (PM) with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828373
Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China’s industrialization and urbanisation in the 2000s. Using micro data for the year 2007, this chapter attempts to contribute to a better understanding of the motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China....
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As a controversial topic in developed and developing countries, migration has been a dynamic field explained on the basis of cause and effect by economists. Migration is the movement of people from one settlement to another. In all countries, migration occurs as the result of economic, social,...
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Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child survival within the framework of the collective household model. We carry out a test of the implications of this framework with data from Demographic and Health Surveys in rural...
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survival. Since parents simultaneously choose their desired values of birth spacing and the amount of time and other resources …
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and girls, which, in turn, reflect the nature of decisions made by resource constrained parents characterised by pro …
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Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child survival within the framework of the collective household model. We carry out a test of the implications of this framework with data from Demographic and Health Surveys in rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685255