-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …

indicator of health. However, parents focused on the negative physical implications of overweight while children focused on the … the obesity epidemic. Parents (and children) negotiate complex and often contradictory messages in constructing a set of … and one child in Victoria and South Australia, we explored how parents and children conceptualise and discuss issues of …

We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural … production in Kagera, Tanzania, reducing total factor productivity. We also quantify how much this negative effect contributes to … productive assets; household members, land, and livestock. We find that prime-age adult mortality decreases the accumulation of …

We ask whether prime-age adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS decreases the endowment of knowledge for agricultural … production in Kagera, Tanzania, reducing total factor productivity. We also quantify how much this negative effect contributes to … productive assets; household members, land, and livestock. We find that prime-age adult mortality decreases the accumulation of …

This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children …

empirical evidence on the role played by crop diversification in improving human health. We use the Tanzania National Panel … nutrition and health, and a risk coping strategy used by farmers in the face of climate change. However, there is no systematic … Survey for years 2008 and 2010, which includes about 3,700 children, to investigate the effect of crop diversification on …

(children mortality, fertility, family planning, etc.); presents multivariate models of demographic behaviour and causes of …, India - summarizes current mortality, fertility, migration, family size and household characteristics; examines bivariate … associations between poverty (land ownership, consumer expenditure, housing, nutrition, health, etc.) and demographic variables …

key finding is that total health benefits of public programs equate to the sum of willingness to pay for reduced mortality …This paper develops and applies an integrated model of human mortality and morbidity valuation that is consistent with … principles of welfare economics. The standard expected utility model of one person facing two health states (alive and dead) is …