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The Invisible Poor
Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016
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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …
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Determinants of child development in India
Grafenstein, Liza von - 2021
determinants of the height gap between children in India and sub-Saharan Africa as Jayachandran & Pande (2... …To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 …
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Entitled to property : how breaking the gender barrier improves child health in India
Hossain, Shahadat Md.; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …
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Sanitation and disease : health aspects of excreta and wastewater management
Feachem, Richard G. (contributor); Coghlan, J. (contributor) - 1983
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Toward a Multidimensional Understanding of Culture for Health Interventions
Asad, Asad - 2015
Although a substantial literature examines the relationship between culture and health in myriad individual contexts, a lack of comparative data across settings has resulted in disparate and imprecise conceptualizations of the concept for scholars and practitioners alike. This article examines...
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Social institutions and gender inequality in fragile states : are they relevant for the post-MDG debate?
Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Cardona, Carolina - 2015 - This version: January, 2015
We focus on an issue that appears particularly relevant for fragile states and which has received little attention: social institutions related to gender inequality, defined as societal practices and legal norms that frame gender roles and the distribution of power between men and women in the...
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Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - In: Economics and human biology 23 (2016), pp. 103-120
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Food inflation and child health
Woldemichael, Andinet; Kidane, Daniel; Shimeles, Abebe - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 36 (2022) 3, pp. 757-773
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Addressing the social consequences of tariffs for water supply and sanitation
Leflaive, Xavier; Hjort, Marit - 2020
Where they exist, tariffs for water supply and sanitation services face a tension between different policy objectives, such as ensuring the financial sustainability of service provision and ensuring access to all, including vulnerable and poor social groups. Governments (local and national)...
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