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Health care decisions as a family matter - intra-household education externalities and the utilization of health services
Lindelow, Magnus - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
The author is concerned with the role of education as a determinant of health care choices. His central premise is that utilization of health services is determined not solely by an individual's own education, but rather by a notion of effective education, which incorporates the educational...
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Malnutrition and poverty in Guatemala
Marini, Alessandra; Gragnolati, Michele - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003
increasing prevalence of excess weights, and obesity among children and adults. Over-nutrition tends to be higher among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128463
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Social rights and economics : claims to health care and education in developing countries
Gauri, Varun - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003
The author analyzes contemporary rights-based and economic approaches to health care and education in developing countries. He assesses the foundations and uses of social rights in development, outlines an economic approach to improving health and education services, and then highlights the...
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Challenging El Salvador's rural health care strategy
Lewis, Maureen; Eskeland, Gunnar S.; Traa-Valerezo, Ximena - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999
Can a supply-driven network of under-skilled rural health promoters make a difference in rural health care? There are few, if any, signs that the current rural health strategy in El Salvador is working, whether the health promoters are government employees or non-governmental organization (NGO)...
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Health policy in poor countries : weak links in the chain
Filmer, Deon; Hammer, Jeffrey; Pritchett, Lant - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998
The authors show how the recent empirical and theoretical literature on health policy sheds light on the disappointing experience with the implementation of primary health care. They emphasize the evidence on two weak links between government spending on health and improvements in health status....
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Child nutrition, child health, and school enrollment : a longitudinal analysis
Alderman, Harold; Behrman, Jere R.; Lavy, Victor; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997
Better health and nutrition are thought to improve children's performance in school, and therefore their productivity … impact of health and nutrition on a child's schooling reflects biases in the studies. Using an explicit dynamic model for … preferred estimates, the authors use longitudinal data to investigate how children's health and nutrition affect school …
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The potential demand for and strategic use of an HIV-1 vaccine in Southern India
Seshadri, Shreelata Rao; Subramaniyam, P.; Jha, Prabhat - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003
Even a modestly effective HIV-1 vaccine would be highly useful in India and could avoid millions of deaths. How should such a vaccine be introduced? Based on evidence of adoption of other vaccines in India, current levels of spending on them and coverage of prevention programs targeting both...
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A reversal of fortune for Korean women : explaining the 1983 upward turn in relative earnings
van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997
Between 1971 and 1983, Korea's mean gender earnings ration remained virtually stagnant at 47 percent. But after 1983, the earnings ration took a distinct turn upward. In other words, not until after 1983 did Korean women make any progress in closing the gender-earnings gap. when controlling for...
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Economic volatility and returns to education in Venezuela : 1992-2002
Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Sakellariou, Chris - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
Preliminary evidence suggests that the rates of return to education in Venezuela have been declining since the 1970s. The authors rigorously estimate the returns to education in Venezuela for the period 1992-2002, and link them to earlier available estimates from the 1980s. They use consistent...
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Is knowledge shared within households?
Basu, Kaushik; Narayan, Ambar; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999
According to theory, a member of a collective-action household may or may not share knowledge with others in that household. Shared income gains from shared knowledge may well be offset by a shift in the balance of power within the family. But do literate members of the household share the...
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