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Wage Rentals for Reproducible Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast

Schultz, T. Paul - School of Management, Yale University - 2004

Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent … forms of human capital are similar within each country for men and women, but education and migration returns are higher in …

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Health and Schooling Investments in Africa

Schultz, T. Paul - 1999

estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult … local quality of schooling, which appear to benefit disproportionately the above-average income households in Africa, as in …'s schooling, and urbanization. It is concluded that intercountry regressions do not yet help us determine the consequences of this …

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Health and schooling investments in Africa

Schultz, T. Paul - 1999

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Health and Schooling Investments in Africa

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

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The Health Effects of Women Empowerment: Recent Evidence from Northern Ghana

Ross, Kara L.; Zereyesus, Yacob A.; Shanoyan, Aleksan; … - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 18 (2015) 1

The IFAMR is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA). www.ifama.org

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Spatial Correlates of U.S. Heights and BMIs, 2002

Komlos, John; Lauderdale, Benjamin E. - 2004

Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes for the recent stagnation in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial U.S. Sizing Survey. Using zip codes available in the data set, we consider geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate,...

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Spatial convergence in height in East-Central Europe, 1890-1910

Brabec, Marek; Komlos, John - 2007

We examine spatial convergence in biological well-being in the Habsburg Monarchy circa 1890-1910 on the basis of evidence on the physical stature of 21-year-old recruits disaggregated into 15 districts. We find that the shorter was the population in 1890 the faster its height grew thereafter....