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Social interactions and habit formation in a model of female labor supply
Woittiez, I.; Kapteyn, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090860
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Equal opportunities for women: the implications of adolescent pregnancy and childbirth in sub-saharan Africa for ILO policies and programmes.
Y, Yeboah - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1993
Reviews the levels, the trends, and the factors pertaining to adolescent pregnancy and childbirth in sub- Saharan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966606
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Enabling women to address their priority health concerns : the role of community-based systems of social protection
Moneti, Francesca - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2004
Focuses on the process of the contribution, at community level, of health micro-insurance to improvement in maternal health care.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966958
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ILO standard setting, policy studies and technical cooperation relating to population issues and women.
C, Oppong - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1993
Examines the ILO's constitution, mandates and International Labour Standards in the areas of female worker protection, and promotion of equality and population. Highlights some current labour problems specific to women, including 'invisible' labour and its lack of documentation, the lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010967553
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Adjusting for differential misclassification in multilevel models: the relationship between child exposure to smoke and cognitive development
Ferrão, Maria; Goldstein, Harvey - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 48 (2014) 1, pp. 251-258
multilevel models and illustrates the extent to which this changes fixed and random parameter estimates. Reliability studies on …, thus, to child exposure to smoke. Models are applied to the Millennium Cohort Study data. The response variable is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010993081
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Cohort Trends in Premarital First Births: What Role for the Retreat From Marriage?
England, Paula; Wu, Lawrence; Shafer, Emily - In: Demography 50 (2013) 6, pp. 2075-2104
We examine cohort trends in premarital first births for U.S. women born between 1920 and 1964. The rise in premarital first births is often argued to be a consequence of the retreat from marriage, with later ages at first marriage resulting in more years of exposure to the risk of a premarital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010993157
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Pregnancy risk among older youth transitioning out of foster care
Matta Oshima, Karen M.; Narendorf, Sarah Carter; … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 10, pp. 1760-1765
multivariate relationships between these factors and pregnancy between ages 17 and 19 using logistic regression. Models examined …Youth served in the foster care system have higher rates of pregnancy than general population youth; yet we have little … information about risk and protective factors to target in order to prevent early pregnancy in this population. We assessed early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010874997
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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … control for whether there is a death around the time of the pregnancy in order to isolate true causal effects of a bereavement … during pregnancy. We find small negative effects on birth outcomes, and these effects are bigger for boys than for girls. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884097
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Health Financing in Vanuatu : Challenges and Options
Anderson, Ian - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Population growth, an unfinished agenda of communicable diseases and maternal health and nutrition, and the rapid rise of Non-communicable diseases are putting increasing strain on not just the Ministry of Health budget, but also the broader financial position of the government as a whole. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010932944
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Behind-the-counter, but Over-the-border? The Assessment of the Geographical Spillover Effect of Increased Access to Emergency Contraception
Cintina, Inna - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2013
counties where women had access to no-prescription EC pharmacies. Yet, there is no effect on pregnancy rates. These results are … "treated" Idaho counties is rather small and models lack sufficient power to detect it. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933391