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Does a Mature AIDS Epidemic Threaten Growth?
Cuesta, José A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper models the impact on economic growth of HIV/AIDS when the epidemic is in a mature phase, in contrast with previous studies focused on periods of expansion, as in African countries. Simulations for Honduras, the epicenter of the epidemic in Central America, show that AIDS is not likely...
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Apuntes acerca de la población del territorio colombiano al momento de la Conquista
Mejía Cubillos, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper studies the population estimates for 1500 of the current territory of Colombia. It reviews the literature and analyzes critically the methods and sources used in the field. We conclude that there is no consensus on population estimates for the period, much less with respect to the...
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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: A Macroeconomic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …
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Does the stork deliver happiness? Parenthood and life satisfaction
Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Studer, Raphael - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between parenthood and life satisfaction using longitudinal data on women from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Previous studies have focused on satisfaction differences between parents and comparable childless adults, mostly finding small and often negative...
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The Economics of Work and Family
Kimmel, Jean (contributor); Hoffman, Emily P. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Kimmel and Hoffman present a set of topical, non-technical papers authored by nationally known experts in this field. Using an economic perspective, they confront work/family issues including child care (potentially the biggest obstacle to parents successfully integrating work and family...
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Female Education and Child Mortality in Indonesia.
Cameron, L.; Mellington, N. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1999
This paper uses a sample of 6620 women from the 1994 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey to examine the relationship between female education and child mortality in Indonesia. Feamle education is measured in terms of both years of education and literacy. Both primary and secondary schooling...
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A Pragmatic Approach to Measuring Neighbourhood Poverty Change
Gambaro, Ludovica; Joshi, Heather; Lupton, Ruth; … - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2014
This paper uses a new indicator to track poverty from 2001 to 2006 in small areas in Great Britain. The indicator, called Unadjusted Means-tested Benefits Rate (UMBR), was devised by Fenton (2013) and is the ratio of claimants of means tested benefits to the number of households in a small area....
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Does Maternity Leave Encourage Higher birth Rates? An Analysis of the Australian Labour Market
Risse, Leonora - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 4, pp. 343-370
This paper uses data from the 2003 HILDA Survey to assess the impact of maternity leave on the incidence of pregnancy among Australian women. The empirical analysis accounts for the fact that data on maternity leave is unobserved for non-working women and applies a Heckprobit selection model to...
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Does grief transfer across generations? In-utero deaths and child outcomes.
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014
two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies—augmented with a …
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Measuring catch-up growth in malnourished populations
Hirvonen, Kalle - Department of Economics, School of Business, Management … - 2013
Chronic malnutrition during early childhood hinders growth and causes children to fall into a lower growth trajectory …. In order to recover, children need to experience growth rates that are above the expected rate for their age. Several … recovery in the Philippines cohort. In Kagera, almost 75 per cent of the children experience catch-up growth. The mean height …
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