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A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data...
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women's intra-household bargaining power to their mortality risk. Using a structural model of households, I estimate the age … age, and that women's relative poverty rates closely match their higher than expected mortality rates by age. This match …
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"Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact … that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid population … estimation (particularly of the effect of the child mortality variable) by deploying exogenous variation in the ecology of …
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aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant …. -- crisis ; infant mortality ; maternal mortality ; low birth weight ; poverty ; Argentina …
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aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant …. -- crisis ; infant mortality ; maternal mortality ; low birth weight ; poverty ; Argentina …
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aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant …
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