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Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent … forms of human capital are similar within each country for men and women, but education and migration returns are higher in …
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estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult … local quality of schooling, which appear to benefit disproportionately the above-average income households in Africa, as in …'s schooling, and urbanization. It is concluded that intercountry regressions do not yet help us determine the consequences of this …
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Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes for the recent stagnation in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial U.S. Sizing Survey. Using zip codes available in the data set, we consider geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate,...
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? Despite the acute concern of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject … postulations of a WHO report on determinants of health-worker migration. …Purpose – How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy …
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? Despite the acute concern of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has made the subject … postulations of a WHO report on determinants of health-worker migration. …Abstract Purpose – How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change …
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schooling but are by far more likely to fall below their appropriate grade. On the other hand, we find that all orphans …—regardless of cause of parental death are less likely to continue schooling and the gaps in enrollment decreases at higher levels of … household welfare status—poor orphans are significantly less likely to continue schooling. …
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epidemic. Responding to these concerns, previous studies have investigated the schooling of orphans. Yet, few studies have … such a loss, and identified former orphans. Among individuals who started schooling before the Free Education Program …-orphans. We do not find a similar difference in education attainment among the younger cohorts, who started schooling after 1974 …
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increase schooling and reduce child labour. Although international remittances are found to have a stronger beneficial impact …
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matter of concern in the region. We study this issue for Uganda, investigating whether the migration of household members … migration of children has a significant positive impact on child school attendance rates while that of adults has a … significantly negative effect, and that remittances have no influence. These findings suggest that migration of children is indeed …
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