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paper examines how the temporary migration of parents for the sole purpose of work affects the health outcomes of children …Economic research on labour migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the … health used, height-for-age, serves as a proxy for stunting. The evidence suggests that whether parental migration is …
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examines how the temporary migration of parents for work affects the health outcomes of children left behind using the … child health depends on which parent moved. In particular, migration of the mother has an adverse effect on the child …Economic research on labor migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064003
examines how the temporary migration of parents for work affects the health outcomes of children left behind using the … child health depends on which parent moved. In particular, migration of the mother has an adverse effect on the child …Economic research on labor migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290416
We analyze how the nutrition transition affects child malnutrition in developing countries. It is often assumed that the nutrition transition affects child weight but not child growth, which could be one reason why child underweight decreases faster than child stunting. But these effects have...
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Labour engagement, underutilization and unemployment has dominated discourse in development literature in developing … economies. It tangentially dictates the direction of migration, gross domestic output and in some cases, youth restiveness. This … study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health …
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mobility across generations. The data follow the children of Black and White Union Army veterans from birth to death, linking … them to the available censuses. The White samples include an over-sample of children of ex-POWs. A separate collection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477239
Labour engagement, underutilization and unemployment has dominated discourse in development literature in developing … economies. It tangentially dictates the direction of migration, gross domestic output and in some cases, youth restiveness. This … study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074789
life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169722
associated with increased out-migration of low-income groups from counties with high-risk malaria ecologies. These results … suggest that the AAA-induced migration played an important role in the reduction of malaria. …
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Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less and rather inconsistently across the continent. We examine to what extent there is an empirical linkage between income growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We...
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