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improvements on some measures, undernutrition among India's young children remains widespread. The improvements we do identify are … among children under five in India. The analytic method combines three types of decomposition: Blinder-Oaxaca, non … conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and socio-economic factors contributing to undernutrition …
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The paper examines the prevalence of depression and clinical depression among the elderly in India across groups with …
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-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production …
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groups - children of uneducated poor women living in rural India. … quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations …
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This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...
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points in the proportion of children chronically malnourished (stunted). We estimate the extent to which changes in the … of children stunted is explained by changes in the distributions of covariates and 35% is explained by change in the …
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Children living in HIV/AIDS affected households bear the heaviest burden of the epidemic. Besides direct vertical … transmission, HIV/ AIDS potentially worsens the children's welfare indirectly through its socio-economic impact. This paper uses … HIV-infected household members on child mortality, undernutrition and educational attainment for Burkina Faso, Cameroon …
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effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses … parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child …
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In the absence of third party and prepayment systems such as health insurance and tax-based healthcare financing, households in many low-income countries are exposed to the financial risks of paying large medical bills from out-of-pocket. In recent years, community based health insurance schemes...
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Stunted growth in early life has serious implications for children and is a wellestablished constraint to productivity …-ordination of services and economies of scale, as well as regional herd immunity in stopping diarrhoea among children, could play an … is crucial as a case study in understanding how best to care for vulnerable children in South Africa but also for …
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