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Japanese women doctors in the hospital system: Gender gap, professional burnout, and the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic.
Bayari, Celal - 2025
Japan’s national hospital system, which consists of a combination of private, national, prefectural and metropolitan hospitals, is the largest employers of the of the doctors. The article provides details on the women doctors’ discontinuous workforce participation in the Japanese hospital...
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A dichotomy between democracy and personal freedom on the spread of COVID-19
Ang, Joshua Ping; Guanlin, Gao; Sparks, Andrew - 2022
Purpose The authors analyze the effects of political freedom and personal freedom on the spread of COVID-19 in a cross-country study. The authors also investigate how income inequality, urbanization and previous experience with a similar respiratory epidemic/pandemic, such as SARS and MERS,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015268734
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Financing Human Development in India: Strategies and Options
Aziz, Ghazala - 2012
India is ranked fairly high amongst the countries in terms of out of pocket expenditure by its citizens on health and … education. India is ranked 134th on the Human Development Index (2011 ranking). Public expenditure on human development is given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015246709
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Urbanization and Demand for Water and Sanitation Services: An Analysis on Cross-Region Investment Requirements
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Chakraborty, Debashis - 2016
With advent of economic growth, rapid urbanization has led to a consequent rise in demand for water supply and sanitation (WSS) services. The growth rate of urban population is quite high in regions characterized by low and middle-income, namely, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Middle East and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015253699
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Armed Conflict and Birth Weight
Le, Kien; Nguyen, My - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214015
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Selective Mortality and Malnutrition in India
Panda, Pallavi - 2019
India presents itself as a paradox with low infant mortality and high malnutrition. This paper provides survival bias … population indicating an overestimation of malnutrition in India. This is consistent with the hypothesis of weaker children … and in the states where sex selection is historically seen as a problem in India. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015215107
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Twin Estimates of the Effects of Prenatal Environment, Child Biology, and Parental Bias on Sex Differences in Early Age Mortality
Pongou, Roland - 2008
India, a region known for discriminating against daughters, and sub-Saharan Africa, a region where sons and daughters are … previously overestimated; and (3) parental discrimination against female children in India negatively affects their survival; but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015221668
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Health Returns to Birth Weight: Evidence from Developing Countries
Kamble, Vaibhav - 2021
This paper explores the effect of birth weight on a series of anthropometric outcomes among children. We use a panel of individual-level data from 39 developing countries covering the years 1999-2018 and attempt to solve the Endogeneity using mother fixed effect and twin fixed-effect strategies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230435
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Health Returns to Birth Weight: Evidence from Developing Countries
Keshav, Vaibhav - 2021
This paper explores the effect of birth weight on a series of anthropometric outcomes among children. We use a panel of individual-level data from 39 developing countries covering the years 1999-2018 and attempt to solve the Endogeneity using mother fixed effect and twin fixed-effect strategies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015232662
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The Impacts of Temperature Shocks on Birth Weight in Vietnam
Le, Kien; Nguyen, My - 2020
This paper investigates the extent to which in-utero exposure to temperature shocks affects birth weight outcomes in Vietnam. Exploiting the variations across districts and conception timing within districts, we show that a one standard deviation increase in temperature relative to the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015257985