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ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper analyzing trends in public expenditure on rural development, education and … disparities in the impact on household income, access to education and health status of expenditure on rural area infrastructure …, land allotment, irrigation, agrarian reform, agricultural credit, adult literacy, primary education, secondary education …
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This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the costs of attaining the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It analyzes the costs of OA programs in four case studies: Wanzai, PRC; Wuyuan, PRC; Kandy, Sri...
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. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …
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using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to all education data in North Carolina. We compare siblings …
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