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in average height across developing countries are not well explained by differences in wealth. In particular, children in … India are shorter, on average, than children in Africa who are poorer, on average, a paradox which is often called the Asian … differences between India's first and second DHS surveys; and econometric decomposition of the India-Africa height difference in …
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in average height across developing countries are not well explained by differences in wealth. In particular, children in … India are shorter, on average, than children in Africa who are poorer, on average, a paradox which is often called the Asian … differences between India's first and second DHS surveys; and econometric decomposition of the India-Africa height difference in …
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An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and … families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children … experiences parental incarceration today, compared to one in 125 children in 1985. Black children are particularly affected by …
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associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult …
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, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate the …) mortality, interpreted as a measure of the disease and nutritional burden in childhood, and the mean height of those children as … childhood determinants of population adult height, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. Across a range of …
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, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate the …) mortality, interpreted as a measure of the disease and nutritional burden in childhood, and the mean height of those children as … childhood determinants of population adult height, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. Across a range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150184
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276950
affects the meager resources of households and impacts dependent women and children. These Cases have been formulated on basis … respondents comprising mainly of urban poor, selected from three major slums and other poverty pockets of Varanasi city in India … and children of households and makes them further vulnerable to multiple crises. This paper urges that the addicts and …
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