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Are Urban Children really healthier?
van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2007
On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid urbanization taking place throughout the developing world...
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The economics of grief
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2012
We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health...
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Low malnutrition but high mortality: Explaining the paradox of the Lake Victoria region
Gräb, Johannes; Priebe, Jan - 2009
Exploiting DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of …-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes of this paradox for the Kenyan context. Our identification strategy consists of two …
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Fertility in Sub-Saharan African countries with consideration to health and poverty
Jeon, Yongil; Rhyu, Sang-Young; Shields, Michael P. - 2008
Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268528
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On the fertility transition in Africa: Income, child mortality, or education?
Mveyange, Anthony - 2015
A consensus among social scientists is that fertility rates in Africa are declining. What determines these declines? I … Africa. This finding is consistent with the predictions of the unified growth theory and sheds important insights in … explaining the sustained income growth Africa has experienced since 1995. The paper also shows that the effects of income per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418604
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Do Leaders' Characteristics and Regime Transitions in Africa Matter for Citizens' Health Status?
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Sackey, Frank Gyimah - 2016
Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be … citizens in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa, at least in the long run. Whilst there is evidence of more private and public …
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Malaria Control and Infant Mortality in Africa
Cogneau, Denis; Rossi, Pauline - 2019
-Saharan Africa over the past 15 years? Using large household surveys collected in 16 countries and exploiting the spatial correlation …
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Natural resources, child mortality and governance quality in African countries
Tadadjeu, Sosson; Ndieupa, Henri Njangang; Asongu, Simplice - 2021
This paper contributes to the literature by investigating the effect of natural resources on under-five mortality in a sample of 50 African countries over the period 1996 to 2018. We also examine the extent to which governance shapes the relationship between natural resources and under-five...
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The African tragedy: the effect of democracy on economic growth
Khodaverdian, Saeed - In: Empirical Economics 62 (2021) 3, pp. 1147-1175
We estimate the effect of democracy on economic growth for the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in comparison with other … countries. We find that in contrast to other countries, democracy in Africa benefits neither GDP per capita nor total GDP. We … Africa. The evidence suggests that without improvements in health, democracy puts Africa on a path toward a Malthusian trap. …
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Terrorism and child mortality
Meierrieks, Daniel; Schaub, Max - In: Health Economics 33 (2023) 1, pp. 21-40
How does terrorism affect child mortality? We use geo‐coded data on terrorism and spatially disaggregated data on child mortality to study the relationship between both variables for 52 African countries between 2000 and 2017 at the 0.5 × 0.5° grid level. Our estimates suggest that moderate...
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