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-random access to rural paved roads through a large-scale road-construction program in India to study how road access impacts … fertility decisions and investments in child health. We find that increased access to paved roads at the district-level leads to … districts with erstwhile lower levels of FLFP, the effects on fertility and child health are driven by paved road access causing …
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health, including mental health. Three major findings come forward from this work. First, disasters appear to bring …, education, health and many income-generating processes. Furthermore, some of these detrimental effects are both large and long … of improving our understanding of the impacts of disasters on health outcomes, the mechanisms of transmission and the …
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health, including mental health. Three major findings come forward from this work. First, disasters appear to bring …, education, health and many income-generating processes. Furthermore, some of these detrimental effects are both large and long … of improving our understanding of the impacts of disasters on health outcomes, the mechanisms of transmission and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132978
Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...
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This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in …
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fractionalization re ects a higher stock of knowledge and information leading to better health outcomes. Knowledge does not ow smoothly …
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productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected … crop yields and child health imputed to precipitations alone. The findings are applied to model projections of future …
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in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using climate and infant health data from a grid of approximately 4,000 cells in 34 African …
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inequality and pollution on children's health may be amplified, if the population group that is least affected decides about tax …
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This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077189