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Did Infant Mortality Decline cause Fertility Decline? Evidence from a Panel Data Analysis of Developing Countries

Sharma, Amarendra - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 283-290

The nexus between infant mortality decline and fertility decline has been the subject matter of several theoretical and empirical investigations. However, this relationship still remains an open question, as the literature provides only mixed empirical evidence. We investigate this relationship...

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Abortion and Human Capital Accumulation: A Contribution to the Understanding of the Gender Gap in Education

Azarnert, Leonid V. - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2008

This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school enrollment. It is assumed in the model that easier access to...

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The South Asian Development Paradox: Can Social Outcomes Keep Pace with Growth?

Ghani, Ejaz - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 53, pp. 1-6

South Asia has one of the fastest growing economies in the world, yet it is also home to the largest concentration of people living in debilitating poverty. How do the two coexist? The paradox of South Asia is that growth has been instrumental in reducing poverty rates, but poverty rates have...

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A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Fertility

Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Ripoll, Marla - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2011

The evidence strongly suggests a robust negative relationship between income and fertility, and a positive relationship between income and longevity. This is puzzling for standard dynamic models. For instance, altruistic models that use the most standard preferences in macro --time separable...

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The impact of remittance income on rural households in China

Snyder, Steve; Chern, Wen S. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 1, pp. 38-57

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of remittance income on rural households in China. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from a large survey of farming households in three Chinese provinces, the impacts of remittances and other types of income on...

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The Double African Paradox: What does selective mortality tell us?

Rouanet, Léa - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011

We study the relationship between height stature and child mortality in West Africa. This is motivated by two things: understanding the determinants of height, widely used health indicator, and explaining the « double African paradox ». This paradox comes from the fact that Africans are...

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Being Born Out-of-Wedlock: Does it affect a Child’s Survival Chance? An Empirical Investigation for Senegal

Guilbert, Nathalie; Marazyan, Karine - DIAL - 2013

(english) In this paper, we are interested in the effect of birth status, being born out-of-wedlock or in wedlock, on survival chance before two years old of siblings of same gender in Senegal. The analysis is based on nationally representative data, those from the Demographic and health survey,...

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Malaria: An early indicator of later disease and work level

Hong, Sok Chul - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 3, pp. 612-632

This study investigates the effect of early-life exposure to malaria on disease and work level in old age over the past one and a half centuries. Using longitudinal lifetime records of Union Army veterans, I first estimate that exposure to a malarial environment in early life (c.1840)...

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Understanding the origins and pace of Africa’s urban transition

Fox, Sean - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

by population dynamics stimulated by technological and institutional change. In particular, disease control and expanded … of an inherent human propensity to agglomerate. Economic development, which has traditionally been viewed as the primary … the 1980s and 1990s, and the historically unprecedented rates of urban population growth seen in the region throughout the …

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The Heavy Plough and the Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe

Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck; Jensen, Peter Sandholt; … - European Historical Economics Society - EHES - 2014

plough in Northern Europe was an important cause of economic development. White argued that it was impossible to take proper …

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