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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
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The Fertility Transition: Economic Explanations
Schultz, T. Paul - 2001
Economic explanations for the fertility transition focus on the role of returns to schooling, especially for women, which have encouraged women to obtain more education and facilitated the rise in women’s wages relative to men’s. The private opportunity costs of children have therefore...
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The impact of a public-health intervention on sex differentials in childhood mortality in rural Punjab, India
Pebley, Anne R; Amin, Sajeda - 1991
This paper examines the effects of a public-health intervention program on sex differentials in health and mortality during childhood. Among the different health-service packages offered as part of the experimental design, those including nutritional services seem to have been more successful in...
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Population Health Measures as Indicators of Fertility Change
Metscher, Karen N. - 2008
This dissertation examines the relationships among measures of mortality, fertility,burden of disease, and socioeconomic factors. Regression modeling is used to determine(1) whether population mortality or child mortality better forecasts fertility levels; (2) if achild health model provides a...
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Child mortality: the impacts of food safety and tertiary education
Frey, Debra L. - 2011
Master of Agribusiness
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Three Essays on the Gender Differentials in Mortality and Undernutrition in Pakistan
Syed, Mohammad Asim - 2008
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
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Special Issue On Estimation Of Baselines And Leakage In CarbonMitigation Forestry Projects
Sathaye, Jayant A.; Andrasko, Kenneth - 2009
estimation of leakage inprojects in developing Asia and Latin America. …
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Outlook and challenges to coal in Asia: 1994--2015
Johnson, C.J.; Li, B. - 2009
The two key threats to coal`s long term dominance in Asia are: (1) its uneven distribution of reserves and lack of … deterioration of the environment in Asia for another one to two decades. China will remain the largest polluter in Asia, but it …`s believed it will become Asia`s largest user of emissions control technology by 2015. The authors have subjectively weighed the …
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