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Interventions that improve childhood health directly improve the quality of life and, in addition, have multiplier effects, producing sustained population and economic gains in poor countries. We suggest how contemporary global institutions shaping the development, pricing and distribution of...
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Interventions that improve childhood health directly improve the quality of life and, in addition, have multiplier effects, producing sustained population and economic gains in poor countries. We suggest how contemporary global institutions shaping the development, pricing and distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653979
Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attracted international attention. In this paper demand … girls. Taken together, the results suggest that son preference in rural China is not driven solely by cultural factors …
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attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children’s education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …
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Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in …
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Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703059
across a number of provinces in China. Using 2008 and 2009 RUMiC data pooling urban, rural and migrant samples, we find that …
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The extent to which China's family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is … China's family planning policy and accordingly, proposes a new policy measure that integrates the policy variations more … completely, heterogeneously, and exogenously by using the cross-sectional data of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. The new …
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RESUME :Aux Etats-Unis, durant les décennies 1970 et 1980, l’entrée massive des mères en couple sur le marché du travail a permis d’alimenter la croissance de l’activité féminine ;durant la décennie suivante, la participation des mères isolées a pris le relais sous l’impulsion...
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Paid maternity leave has gained greater salience in the past few decades as mothers have increasingly entered the workforce. Indeed, the median number of weeks of paid leave to mothers among OECD countries was 14 in 1980, but had risen to 42 by 2011. We assess the case for paid maternity leave,...
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