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Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …
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Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings …
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Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159221
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083817
households and community health workers for every live birth, this program altered existing trends in prenatal sex selection … role played by community health workers in facilitating the program is a key driver of the decline in prenatal sex …
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This is a short paper analyzing the potential effects of a targeted school-building program on health indicators. The …
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of immunization coverage in India using the recent National Family Health Survey data. Measurement of socioeconomic … inequalities in health and health care, and understanding the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions …, are critical for health intervention strategies and for achieving equity in health care. A decomposition approach is …
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health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data …
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Our study contributes to the understanding of key drivers of stunted growth, a factor widely recognized as major impediment to human capital development. Specifically, we examine the effects of sanitation coverage and usage on child height for age in a semi-urban setting in Northern India. We...
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health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135179