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answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they may have … analyze the effects of aggregate economic shocks on child schooling and health. They show that the expected effects are … literature on the subject. In richer countries, like the United States, child health and education outcomes are counter …
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for 17 million births in 72 countries, we demonstrate that indicators of mother's health and health-related behaviours are … and poorer countries, evident even among women who do not use IVF, and hold for numerous different measures of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912230
The aim of this paper is to determine if there is a causal relationship between children's time spent on media related … been increasing. It has been suggested in the literature that changes in children's media use is an important explanation … for the observed increase in children's weight. I investigate whether or not this hypothesis is supported by data …
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This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these specific interventions has varied greatly over...
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? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they … aggregate economic shocks on child schooling and health. It shows that the expected effects are ambiguous, because of a tension … countries, like the United States, child health and education outcomes are counter-cyclical: they improve during recessions. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521058
answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they may have … analyze the effects of aggregate economic shocks on child schooling and health. They show that the expected effects are … literature on the subject. In richer countries, like the United States, child health and education outcomes are counter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561484
answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they may … economic shocks on child schooling and health. It shows that the expected effects are ambiguous, because of a tension between …, like the United States, child health and education outcomes are counter-cyclical: they improve during recessions. In poorer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747211
answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they may … economic shocks on child schooling and health. It shows that the expected effects are ambiguous, because of a tension between …, like the United States, child health and education outcomes are counter-cyclical: they improve during recessions. In poorer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552493
We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309090
We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294100