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Extensive research has shown comprehensive early intervention can improve the developmental outcomes of disadvantaged children. However, little is known about the effectiveness of center-based programs for infants and toddlers; relatively rare in the developing world and typically of low...
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This paper experimentally estimates medium term impacts of a large-scale and low-cost parenting program targeting poor families in Chile. Households in 162 public health centers were randomly assigned to three groups: a control group, a second group that was offered eight weekly group parenting...
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This paper experimentally estimates medium term impacts of a large-scale and low-cost parenting program targeting poor families in Chile. Households in 162 public health centers were randomly assigned to three groups: a control group, a second group that was offered eight weekly group parenting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057362
Many U.S. states are now in their fifth year of a medical malpractice "crisis", a period of volatility in the malpractice insurance market characterized by above average increases in premiums, contractions in the supply of insurance and deterioration in the financial health of carriers....
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of the programmes. Vietnam has been very successful in poverty reduction since the economic reform in 1986. The … of development programmes in Viet Nam. The findings are expected to be relevant for not only Vietnam but also other … developing countries, especially those with a similar socio-economic context as Vietnam. …
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. This justifies a micro-credit program, which is operated by the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies to provide the poor with …
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‘exemption of educational fees’, ‘provision with health care insurance’, and ‘micro-credit for the poor’ in Vietnam. It is found …
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of the programmes. Vietnam has been very successful in poverty reduction since the economic reform in 1986. The … of development programmes in Viet Nam. The findings are expected to be relevant for not only Vietnam but also other … developing countries, especially those with a similar socio-economic context as Vietnam. …
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The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system of Germany in 2004 as a source of exogenous variation. Among others, the reform introduced a co-payment for ambulatory doctor visits and increased the co-payments for...
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The reliability of general self-rated health status is examined using the reform of the public health insurance system of Germany in 2004 as a source of exogenous variation. Among others, the reform introduced a co-payment for ambulatory doctor visits and increased the co-payments for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265791