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Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic crisis. These studies are based on research designs that do not allow for excluding that the observed association is driven by confounders. The aim of the present paper is to...
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Aging is the foremost challenge in recent times, given the demographic shift in populations across the world. It implies the costs of healthcare burden and involves economic and social security challenges through shortage of labor supply, consumption-saving paradox, increase in expenditure on...
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This study is possibly the first to investigate the impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on life expectancy for 68 low- and middle-income countries for the 1990-2017 period. The analysis was carried out on a disaggregated basis on two dimensions: (1) the sources of CO2 emissions (i.e.,...
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excess mortality and GDP growth adjusted for additional fiscal stimulus. We conduct an empirical analysis in two stages … public testing and additional fiscal stimulus in non-health could help reduce excess mortality, which might lead to lower …
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incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled … rewards were offered. The program also led to some effects in each of the three areas of education, health and work, although …
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below which an increase in income has no impact on child labor and education. We estimate the causal impact of an increase … in income on child labor and education exploiting the random allocation of the Child Grant Programme, an unconditional …, while relatively less poor households reduce child labor and increase education. In policy terms, the results indicate that …
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