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Horizontal inequity in health care utilization in Japan

Honda, Chika; Ohkusa, Yasushi - 2002

International comparisons of horizontal inequity in health have recently become one of the most pertinent issues in health economics. Japan has not been included in these international comparisons. This omission is rectified in this paper, which focuses on Japan. Moreover, we consider its...

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Fatal fluctuations? Cyclicality in infant mortality in India

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2007

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …

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Parental investments and intra-household inequality in child human capital: Evidence from a survey experiment

Giannola, Michele - 2022

mitigate the identification problem posed by observational data, I design a survey experiment with poor households in India. I …

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A modified Kakwani measure for health inequality

Fjugushige, Mototsugu; Ishikawa, Noriko; Maekawa, Satoko - In: Health Economics Review 2 (2012) 10, pp. 1-7

We propose simple modifications for the Kakwani tax progressivity measure that make it suitable for evaluating access inequality for medical services. Our modification is to measure inequality using the ratio of the concentration index to the Gini coefficient instead of the difference between...

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d'Uva, Teresa Bago; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2010

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified...

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Identifying High Growth Firms in India: An Alternative Approach

Aggarwal, Aradhna; Sato, Takahiro - 2015

Over the past two decades, considerable interest has grown in high growth firms (HGFs). However, the concept of HGFs still remains controversial. One of the most controversial issues is size and age of these firms. The present study argues that the current literature on HGFs may offer little...

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Women, children and patience: experimental evidence from Indian villages

Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …

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The relation between child labour and mother's work: The case of India

Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2007

states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …

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School attendance of children and the work of mothers: a joint multilevel model for India

Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; … - 2008

This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother´s working status when the … mother´s participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health … Survey (NFHS-2) for India, we find that, controlling for many covariates among which wealth is the most powerful predictor …

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Maternal autonomy and the education of the subsequent generation: Evidence from three contrasting states in India

Alfano, Marco; Arulampalam, Wiji; Kambhampati, Uma - 2011

of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time … by using proxy measures collected in the third round of the National Family Health Survey of India, on information … states in India - Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. Our results indicate that female autonomy is not associated with …

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