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drive fertility behavior that generates sex-based differences in outcomes even when parents do not explicitly prefer boys … agricultural land. I confirm this theoretical prediction using panel data from rural households in India. This strategic fertility …
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on the role for public policy in addressing large sex differences in health and mortality outcomes.strategic fertility …
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This paper analyzes the macroeconomic role that different household groups play in human capital formation, sectoral growth and income distribution in Rwanda. Using a disaggregated SAM for Rwanda and with the assistance of structural path analysis, the paper explores the macroeconomic...
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Mid-long term projections of the Stability Programs (SP) are elaborated to simulate the burden each active citizen or each worker will have to bear for financing, via pay-as-you-go, public health care provisions and public pensions. It is worth mentioning that projections in the (SP) are those...
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In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I will introduce a new expression for the balanced-budget constraint, no longer based on lump- sum transfers as in the traditional literature, but rather on more realistic labour...
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Our present concern is with fertility determinants on Pakistan. Based on the household data co11cted in connection with … influence of various socio-economic variables on household fertility decision making. The analysis which follows is preliminary … in nature and can be characterised as taking a general socio-economic approach. Various fertility measures available from …
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Abstract: This article discusses studies and past research with considerable impact on political and economist views about the Minimum Wage policy. The article evaluates studies and conclusions to derive that the minimum wage must be implemented at a greater scale to combat income inequality.
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This paper investigates the hidden yet persistent cost of conflict to birth weight outcomes for 53 developing countries experiencing conflict in the past three decades (1990-2018). Exploiting the variation across districts and conception months-years, we find that intrauterine exposure to armed...
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Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child …
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