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Childhood mortality and economic growth
Bhalotra, Sonia - 2006
This paper investigates the extent to which the decline in child mortality over the last three decades can be attributed to economic growth. In doing this, it exploits the considerable variation in growth over this period, across states and over time. The analysis is able to condition upon a...
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Health and Income Poverty in Ireland, 2003-2006
Madden, D - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008
Recent advances in the measurement of bi-dimensional poverty are applied to a measure of poverty which incorporates income and health poverty. The correlation between income and poverty is examined using the Receiver Operating Characteristics curve. Following from this unidimensional and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523919
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Urban Poverty and Health in Developing Countries: Household and Neighborhood Effects
Montgomery, Mark R.; Hewett, Paul C. - Economics Department, State University of New … - 2004
In the U.S. and other high-income countries, where most of the population lives in urban areas, there is intense scholarly and program interest in the effects of household and neighborhood living standards on health. Yet very few studies of developing-country cities have examined these issues....
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La dynamique de l'inégalité de la malnutrition des enfants en Afrique. Une analyse comparative fondée sur une décomposition de régression
Lachaud, Jean-Pierre - Groupe d'Economie du Développement de l'Université … - 2003
ont des effets contrastés selon les pays et la période considérés. Deuxièmement, la décomposition de l'indice de …'inégalité du retard de croissance des enfants suggère plusieurs commentaires. Tout d'abord, la décomposition totale indique que la … localisation spatiale. Ensuite, la décomposition de type Oaxaca montre que dans deux pays sur trois – Burkina Faso et Cameroun –, l …
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Dynamique de pauvreté et inégalité de la mortalité des enfants au Burkina Faso
Lachaud, Jean-Pierre - Groupe d'Economie du Développement de l'Université … - 2001
Based on the demographic and health surveys of Burkina Faso of 1992-93 and 1998-99, present study proposes to analyse the importance and evolution of the inequality of child mortality, and the relations which prevail between the latter and poverty. Firstly, there is an opposite relation between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005488096
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A Multilevel Approach to Explain Child Mortality and Undernutrition in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Harttgen, Kenneth; Misselhorn, Mark - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2006
While undernutrition among children is very pervasive both in Sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia, child mortality is rather low in South Asia. In contrast to that Sub-Saharan African countries suer by far the worst from high rates of child mortality. This dierent pattern of child mortality and...
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Is India Better off Today than 15 Years ago? A Robust Multidimensional Answer
Gravel, Nicolas; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2007
This paper provides a robust normative evaluation of the spectacular growth episode that India has experienced in the last 15 years. Specifically, the paper compares the evolution, between 1998, 1996 and 2001 of the distribution of several important individual attributes on the basis of...
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The Socio-Economic Module of the Berlin Aging Study II (SOEP-BASE): Description, Structure, and Questionnaire
Böckenhoff, Anke; Saßenroth, Denise; Kroh, Martin; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...
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Riding for Survival: A Worst Form of Human Trafficking
Safana, Shaheen; Masood, Sarwar; Muhammad, Waqas; Amir, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Trafficking of the humans is a growing concern at international level. Among all the trafficked ones, children who are misused and continuously mistreated claim the special attention. It is, further, a known fact that these poverty stricken children are trafficked from Pakistan to wealthy Gulf...
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Contribution of lifelong adverse experiences to social health inequalities : findings from a population survey in France
Jusot, Florence; Cambois, Emmanuelle - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
Background: Recent research shows that adverse experiences, such as economic hardships or exclusion, contribute to deterioration of health status. However, individuals currently experiencing adverse experiences are excluded from conventional health surveys, which, in addition, often focus on...
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