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Cognitive Development and Infectious Disease : Gender Differences in Investments and Outcomes
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2013
differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071287
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Neighborhood effects on food consumption
Leonard, Tammy; McKillop, Caitlin; Carson, Jo Ann; … - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 51 (2014) C, pp. 99-113
Food consumption behavior is likely a result of environmental stimuli, access, and personal preferences, making policy aimed at increasing the nutritional content of food consumption challenging. We examine the dual role of the social and physical neighborhood environment as they relate to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261622
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Cognitive Development and Infectious Disease: Gender Differences in Investments and Outcomes
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726723
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The Impact of a Community Health Worker Program on Childhood Immunization : Evidence from India's 'ASHA' Workers
Rao, Tanvi - 2014
In 2005-06 the Indian government introduced a new cadre of Community Health Workers known as Accredited Social Health Activists or ASHA workers to improve basic health outcomes through community engagement. The initial roll-out of the program, between 2005 and 2009, was heavily focused on 18...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014145182
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Lasting impact of early life interventions : evidence from India’s Integrated Child Development Services
Dhamija, Gaurav; Sen, Gitanjali - 2020
In the year 1975, the Indian government initiated the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), the largest national program in the world targeting long-term nutrition and holistic development of children, to be implemented through the Anganwadi Centers (AWC). Combining differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014118594
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Mortality and health spending during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic : comparing central, eastern and western Europe
Kliber, Agata; Rychłowska-Musiał, Elżbieta - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 26 (2023) 1, pp. 65-88
The article shows the relationships between the COVID and non‑COVID deaths during the first year of the pandemic, compared with the stringency of restrictions imposed and the compulsory spending on healthcare. We compare these relationships among European countries, analysing weekly data and...
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Recent Trends in Taiwanese Medical Spending
Chen, Stacey; Chuang, Hongwei - 2021
Since the creation of National Health Insurance (NHI) in 1995, Taiwan’s medical spending has been increasing rapidly, as has been the case in most countries worldwide. This paper follows international standards in documenting recent trends in Taiwan’s medical spending by category, relying on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226776
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Sur l'impact socio-économique des pandémies en Afrique : Leçons tirées du COVID-19, de la trypanosomiase, du VIH-SIDA, de la fièvre jaune, du choléra (Sozio-ökonomische Auswirkunge...
Kohnert, Dirk - 2021
French Abstract: Au cours de l'histoire, rien n'a tué plus d'êtres humains que les maladies infectieuses et la fièvre hémorragique. Bien que les taux de mortalité dus aux pandémies aient chuté de près de 1 % par an dans le monde, environ 0,8 % par an, tout au long du XXe siècle, le...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229486
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On the Socio-Economic Impact of Pandemics in Africa - Lessons Learned from COVID-19, Trypanosomiasis, HIV, Yellow Fever and Cholera
Kohnert, Dirk - 2021
Throughout history, nothing has killed more human beings than infectious diseases. Although, death rates from pandemics dropped globally by about 0.8 % per year, all the way through the 20th century, the number of new infectious diseases like Sars, HIV and Covid-19 increased by nearly fourfold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229519
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Education, paludisme et moustiquaires imprégnées d'insecticide en Afrique sub-saharienne
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
education. The analysis is based on a panel sample of 41 countries of sub-Saharan African over the period 2001-2006. Our results … suggest that cover of insecticide-treated mosquito net positivelyaffect the indicators of education. Cet articles’intéresse à … la relation entre la couverture en moustiquaires imprégnées d’insecticide et quelquesindicateurs d’éducation. L’étude est …
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