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-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal … age on offspring human capital in terms of health and cognition. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for …. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …
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While the burden of non-communicable diseases is rising in low- and middle-income countries, the uptake of screening for these diseases remains low. We conducted a community-based RCT in Indonesia to assess whether personalized and targeted text messages can increase the demand for existing...
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capabilities. With this conceptual framework in mind, health, more specifically infant mortality, is chosen as a measure of … development and as the object of study. The Government should guarantee the provision of health services, as they consist in … spatial dependency observed in the data. The study concludes that health infrastructure lost its explanative power for the …
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It is commonly known that irresponsible alcohol use can have adverse effects. For some people it results in health …
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This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...
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This paper analyses the relationship between household cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitan regions. The country's economic growth in the last decade contributed significantly to structural economic changes at the regional level, in terms of employment, population growth and...
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Slovakia is on route for searching its development model. It required courage to take bridge programs for invention, innovation and creativity. A new culture is created in relation to the third industrial revolution. It relies on the dispersion potential, universally available energy sources,...
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The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space, it also seems relevant...
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Territorial cooperation, taken as collaboration "beyond national boundaries", among administrative bodies and/or political actors, generally offers the ground for functional cooperation towards problem-solving and challenge-tackling, along with the exploitation of the local and regional...
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