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Impact of Preventive Health Care on Indian Industry and Economy
Chadha, Alka; Mehdi, Ali; Malik, Garima - 2007
, productivity and profitability that India's growth potential and global competitiveness depends substantially. Unfortunately, while …
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Health and the political agency of women
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma - 2011
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286864
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The Price of a Price: On the Crowding out of Social Norms
Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Mendys, Ewa - 2001
There is increasing empirical and experimental evidence thatproviding financial incentives to agents to performcertain socially desirable actions may permanently reduce other typesof motivations to undertake these actions.We study the impact of financial incentives on the desire for...
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Optimal health and retirement policies amid population aging
Hostenkamp, Gisela; Stolpe, Michael - 2008
This paper develops a simple analytical framework in which optimal health and retirement policies amid population aging can be discussed. To be efficient, these policies must recognize and exploit the dynamic complementarities between the timing of retirement, the size of lifecycle labour income...
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A structural model of coronavirus behaviour: What do four waves of Covid tell us?
Meenagh, David; Minford, Patrick - 2022
This paper extends Meenagh and Minford (2021) to the four waves of infection in the UK by end-2021, using the unique newly available sample-based estimates of infections created by the ONS. These allow us to estimate the e§ects on the Covid hospitalisation and fatality rates of vaccination and...
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Out-of-pocket expenditure on maternity care for hospital births in Uttar Pradesh, India
Goli, Srinivas; Rammohan, Anu - In: Health Economics Review 8 (2018) 5, pp. 1-16
hospital settings in Uttar Pradesh, India during 2014. The simple random sampling design was used in the selection of … India in general and Uttar Pradesh in particular need to consider the levels of OOPE on maternity care and demand-side and … to achieve better maternity health outcomes in poor regional settings like Uttar Pradesh in India. …
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - 2000
The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...
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Individual and collective resources and health in Morocco
Martin, Marie-Claude - 2008
The interaction between available individual and collective resources in the determination of health is largely ignored in the literature on the relationship between poverty and health in developing countries. We analyse the role public resources play in the perception that rural women in...
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The mechanics of central bank intervention in foreign exchange markets
Basu, Kaushik - 2009
Central banks in developing countries, wanting to devalue the domestic currency, usually intervene in the foreign exchange market by buying up foreign currency using domestic money-often backing this up with sterilization to counter inflationary pressures. Such interventions are usually...
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