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-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …
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Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286503
-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658077
Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377096
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …
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This paper discusses social protection initiatives in the context of developing countries and explores the opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief introduction on the emergence of social protection (SP) and how it...
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This paper discusses social protection initiatives in the context of developing countries and explores the opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief introduction on the emergence of social protection (SP) and how it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717844
's effects on child mortality and educational attainment in India. Results show that exposure to the program reduced infant …. The negative effect at low levels of schooling may be due to lower average health among marginal surviving children or a … greater propensity to complete secondary school on the other hand may be due to improved health among children who are farther …
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considerations in a country’s development strategy to promote rapid and sustained economic growth, full employment, poverty reduction … and unmet needs for family planning and reproductive health services in relation to poverty. A sidelight on pressing …, this paper argues that the growth rate of population, its age structure and spatial distribution should be key …
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unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …
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