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In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural … China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … that this effect is stronger for poorer households within villages. Household income per capita and non-durable consumption …
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to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
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Forced displacement is a major driver of mental health disorders among refugees globally. The mental well-being of … adult refugees, particularly mothers, is widely recognized as a crucial determinant of their children's psychological health …
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"Hard times for African refugees": Flight and migration from the Third World countries have assumed a previously … poor and deprived, the elderly, women and children, suffer the most. African refugees are particularly disadvantaged in … African refugees and migrants on Europe as bargaining chip for more development aid, and the alliance of German domestic and …
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the cheaper product is in their consumption basket. These welfare gains through consumption, on average, are found to be …
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Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...
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Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial determinant of human capital and economic standing throughout adulthood. We examine the effects of a policy shift, the Hindu Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted...
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This paper re-enters the contested discussion surrounding the Indian Enigma, the high prevalence of chronic undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the worse treatment of higher birth order children,...
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The civil war in Syria has been raging since 2011. We ask whether civil war experience affects voluntary cooperation …
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Decline and break-up of institutionalized cooperation, at all levels, has occurred frequently. Some of its concomitants … success of institutionalized cooperation and of increasing system complexity, when cognitive conditions for effective …
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