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Urban-rural disparities of child health and nutritional status in China from 1989 to 2006
Liu, Hong; Fang, Hai; Zhao, Zhong - 2012
children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989-2006. The results show that on average …This paper analyzes urban-rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … urban children have 0.29 higher height-for-age z-scores and 0.19 greater weight-for-age z-scores than rural children. Urban …
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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
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Substitution effects in parental investments
Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - 2009
their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …
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Child health and the income gradient: Evidence from China
Chen, Yi; Lei, Xiaoyan; Zhou, Li-an - 2010
longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …
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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China
Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Quheng, Deng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011
found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It …
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Interregionale Disparitäten und Entwicklung ländlicher Räume als regionalpolitische Herausforderung für die neuen EU-Mitgliedstaaten
Baum, Sabine; Weingarten, Peter - 2004
zugenommen. Insbesondere die Stadt-Land-Gegensätze haben sich verstärkt. Dieser Beitrag zeigt die Entwicklung der Disparitäten …
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Urban Congestion Pricing – Economists and Practitioners Join Hands
Rave, Tilmann - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 3, pp. 3-4
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Sin City?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Svarer, Michael; Teulings, Coen N. - 2007
Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? Weinvestigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners bymoving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
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Testing the neoclassical migration model: overall and age-group specific results for German regions
Mitze, Timo; Reinkowski, Janina - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 43 (2011) 4, pp. 277-297
This paper tests the empirical validity of the neoclassical migration model in predicting German internal migration flows. We estimate static and dynamic migration functions for 97 Spatial Planning Regions between 1996 and 2006 using key labor market signals including income and unemployment...
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Agglomeration effects on labour demand
Blien, Uwe; Kirchhof, Kai; Ludewig, Oliver - 2006
How do agglomeration effects influence the demand for labour? To answer this question, approaches on labour demand are linked with an analysis of the classic 'urbanization effect'. We use models for static and for dynamic labour demand to find out, whether agglomerations develop faster or slower...
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