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Globalization and child health in developing countries : the role of democracy

Welander, Anna; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Nilsson, Therese - 2014

variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Specifically the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …

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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries : The Role of Democracy

Welander, Anna - 2014

variation across countries is the quality of democracy. Using panel data for 70 developing countries between 1970 and 2009 this … paper disentangles the relationship between globalization, democracy, and child health. Speciﬁcally the paper examines how … globalization and a country's democratic status and historical experience with democracy, respectively, affect infant mortality. In …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050566

Childhood health and educational investment under risk

Kumra, Neha - In: IZA journal of labor & development 6 (2017) 2, pp. 1-22

A huge literature shows that childhood health and educational attainment are highly correlated. However, estimates for the effect of childhood health on educational attainment under risk generally confound the effect of liquidity constraints and of lack of insurance against risk. It is unclear...

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Microfinance and the decision to invest in children's education

Viswanath, P. V. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20

Although one of the primary objectives of microfinance has been the reduction of poverty through the provision of credit for income-generating purposes, evidence of its impact on poverty has been mixed. Even if there is no direct impact of microfinance, there may be an indirect positive impact...

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The Effect of Investment Credit on Children's Schooling : Evidence from Pakistan

Menon, Nidhiya - 2004

This paper studies the influence of credit on children's schooling using data from Pakistan. It shows that credit need not increase the likelihood of school attendance for children who work in their household's non-farm enterprise. Moreover, credit obtained for investment purposes may reduce the...

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How much should we trust linear instrumental variables estimators? : an application to family size and children's education

Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - 2009

Many empirical studies specify outcomes as a linear function of endogenous regressors when conducting instrumental variable (IV) estimation. We show that tests for treatment effects, selection bias, and treatment effect heterogeneity are biased if the true relationship is non-linear. These...