Similar Search Results

The effects of education, health, and social security on fertility in developing countries

Cochrane, Susan H. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1988

This paper analyzes the effects of education, health and social security on fertility in developing countries. Spending on education does not necessarily reduce fertility. For example, with small amounts of education fertility tends to increase before falling off at the level of completed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128808

A reappraisal of how oral rehydration therapy affected mortality in Egypt

Rashad, Hoda - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1992

Oral rehydration therapy is the key low-cost child survival intervention used to deal with diarrheal illness in developing countries. The existence of a low-cost, highly efficacious technological fix (oral rehydration salts) for the life-threatening dehydration that accompanies diarrhea provided...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128855

The impact of adult deaths on children's health in Northwestern Tanzania

Ainsworth, Martha; Semali, Innocent - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

The AIDS epidemic is dramatically increasing mortality of adults in many Sub-Saharan African countries, with potentially severe consequences for surviving family members. Until now, most of these impacts had not been quantified. The authors examine the impact of adult mortality in Tanzania on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128906

How access to contraception affects fertility and contraceptive use in Tunisia

Cochrane, Susan; Guilkey, David K. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1992

To a great extent, fertility decline in Tunisia can be explained by the rise in the age at which women marry, probably because they are better educated and because social legislation has given them more rights. A second major factor in fertility decline was the increased use of contraception....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128932

Institutional trap

Do, Quy-Toan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

The author studies the persistence of inequality and inefficient governance in a physical capital accumulation model with perfect information, missing credit markets, and endogenous barriers to entry. When access to investment opportunities is regulated, rent-seeking entrepreneurs form...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005128989

Distinguishing between types of data and methods of collecting them

Hentschel, Jesko - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998

The author examines the role of different data collection methods--including the types of data they produce--in the analysis of social phenomena in developing countries. He points out that one confusing factor in the"quantitative-qualitative"debate is that a distinction is not clearly made...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129196

Child nutrition, child health, and school enrollment : a longitudinal analysis

Alderman, Harold; Behrman, Jere R.; Lavy, Victor; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1997

Better health and nutrition are thought to improve children's performance in school, and therefore their productivity … impact of health and nutrition on a child's schooling reflects biases in the studies. Using an explicit dynamic model for … preferred estimates, the authors use longitudinal data to investigate how children's health and nutrition affect school …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129201

The value of preventing malaria in Tembien, Ethiopia

Cropper, Mauren L.; Haile, Mitiku; Lampieti, Julian A.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

The authors measure the monetary value households place on preventing malaria in Tembien, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. They estimate a household demand function for a hypothetical malaria vaccine and compute the value of preventing malaria as the household's maximum willingness to pay to provide...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129212

Social development is economic development

Birdsall, Nancy - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1993

The author makes four main points in this paper: (1) social development, in addition to improving human welfare directly, is an excellent investment. The hard-nosed economic fact is that it contributes to economic growth. Even a narrow interest in growth for growth's sake dictates putting your...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129304

Impregnated nets cannot fully substitute for DDT : field effectiveness of Malaria prevention in Solomon Islands

Velayudhan, Raman; Wilikai, Peter; Graves, Patricia M.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

The incidence of malaria in Solomon Islands has been declining since 1992, but there is a large geographical variation between areas in the incidence level and the rate of decline. The authors used a mix of control interventions, including DDT residual house spraying and insecticide-treated...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129403