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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438517
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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975
Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980
This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439057
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The increasingly mixed proportional hazard model: An application to socioeconomic status, health shocks, and mortality
Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2011
We introduce a duration model that allows for unobserved cumulative individual-specific shocks, which are likely to be important in explaining variations in duration outcomes, such as length of life and time spent unemployed. The model is also a useful tool in situations where researchers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448432
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Economic Inequality in Adult Mortality in Canada: Analyses of the Longitudinal Administrative Databank
Etches, Jacob - 2009
This dissertation contains two empirical papers on income and premature mortality, and one methodological paper that concerns the summary measurement of the extent of social inequalities in health. Income dynamics and adult mortality: Canada and the USAChapter 4 examines the effects of income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009455324
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The income volatility see-saw : implications for school lunch.
Newman, Constance.; United States. - 2006
eligibility in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The results show that income volatility was higher for successively lower … subsidized lunches at the beginning of the school year were no longer income eligible for the same level of subsidy by December …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429474
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The income volatility see-saw : implications for school lunch.
Newman, Constance.; United States. - 2006
eligibility in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The results show that income volatility was higher for successively lower … subsidized lunches at the beginning of the school year were no longer income eligible for the same level of subsidy by December …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429514
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Risk of Exposure to and Mitigation of Effect of Aflatoxin on Human Health: A West African Example.
Cardwell, Kitty F.; Henry, Sara H. - 2004
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the relative risk of exposure of different human populations to food-borne aflatoxins; the types of health impact that may be incurred by dietary exposure to aflatoxins; and possible strategies likely to mitigate risks to human health. Risk of exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429577
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School Quality and the Institutional Design of the School System
Huber, Kathrin - 2007
By reviewing the theoretical as well as the empirical literature on the economics of education, the following … hypothesis is scrutinized: not an increase of schooling resources in the existing school system, but a performance … ‘school autonomy’, ‘external exams’ and ‘school competition’, which international research has identified as the supporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471785
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PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AND SEGREGATION IN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS: NON-GENETICALLY MODIFIED AND SPECIALTY CORN AND SOYBEAN CROPS IN IOWA
Miranowski, John A.; Jensen, Helen H.; Batres-Marquez, … - 2004
An important dimension of product differentiation and segregation for specialty crops is the added handling and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443107
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Who pays the costs of non-GMO segregation and identity preservation?
Desquilbet, Marion; Bullock, David S. - 2002
and market segregation. We represent explicitly the costs of non-GMO segregation and identity preservation (IP) for both … segregation in the European Union (EU). We analyze how the costs of IP are distributed among heterogenous producers, handlers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443819