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Child Health Status and Utilization of Healthcare Services
Ensuring the survival and well-being of children is a fundamental goal that every society should strive to achieve. In this Chapter, we deal...
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Differential fertility, school enrollment, and development
This paper develops a model wherein parents choose the number of children, enroll some children in school at indivisible education costs, and receive...
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Born this way: the effect of an unexpected child benefit at birth on longer-term educational outcomes
Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to mothers giving birth or adopting a...
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Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from Ethiopia
This study assesses the causal effect of child marriage on infant mortality. Using age discontinuities in exposure to a law that raised the legal age...
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Enabling Holistic Human Development
The attainment of common prosperity inherently implies holistic human development. The “Outline of the People’s Republic of China 14th Five-Year Plan...
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Neighbourhood effects and the incidence of child labour
In spite of the growing interest in factors driving the incidence of child labour, little is known of the relationship between neighbours’ decisions...
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Child marriage: using the Indonesian family life survey to examine the lives of women and men who married at an early age
An understanding of the experiences of men and women who marry before adulthood is important in motivating social change. Using fixed effects...
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The Theories of Cognitive Development
As discussed in the previous chapter the first few years of a child’s life are important for its mental and physical development. This is because it...
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Political Economy of Child Labour
Concerns about the welfare of working children has over time produced a wide range of international and national interventions in the child labor...
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Digitizing Development?
The chapter provides an overview of the role of information technology in development, examining its functions, applications, and impacts. This...
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Psychology and Youth Development
In previous chapters it has been discussed that the pre-natal and post-natal development of the infant as that of the pre-adolescent child is...
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Inclusive development of minorities in Karnataka
Available literature by researchers, committees and commissions established the fact that the minorities of Karnataka are economically an excluded...
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National Development Banks and Sustainable Development
The issue of sustainable developmentSustainable development is a major concern to both policyPolicy/policiesmakers and scholars. This is because it...
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Social mobility and economic development
We explore the relationship between social mobility and economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility in education...
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Child health and maternal labour market engagement in Ghana
Based on the assumption that mothers mainly provide childcare, this study investigates the effect of child health status on the labour force...
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Women’s right to property and the child quantity-quality trade-off: evidence from India
We study the effects of a series of state and federal reforms that granted Indian women equal inheritance rights on the quantity and quality of...
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How does the minimum wage affect child maltreatment and parenting behaviors? An analysis of the mechanisms
Children in low socioeconomic status (SES) families are five times more likely to experience child maltreatment relative to children in high SES...
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Socio-economic inequalities of child undernutrition in Gujarat: over-time change and inter-district disparities
In the discourse of the lopsided development trajectory of Gujarat in which social development could not keep pace with economic development, poor...
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Allocation of time and child socio-emotional skills
In this study, we investigate the effect of time allocation on children’s non-cognitive development, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK)...
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Origin and Development of Infrastructure Economics
This chapter first surveys the views of famous scholars and major theories on infrastructure. On this basis, it collects the empirical evidence of...