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David Newhouse
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 106
Citations - 3039
David Newhouse is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Wage. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 106 publications receiving 2597 citations. Previous affiliations of David Newhouse include International Monetary Fund & University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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Self-Employment in the Developing World
Thomas Gindling,David Newhouse +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed heterogeneity among the self-employed in 74 developing countries, representing two-thirds of the population of the developing world, and found that the structure of employment shifts rapidly, first out of agriculture into unsuccessful non-agricultural self-employment, and then mainly into non-aggricultural wage employment.
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Does health aid matter
Prachi Mishra,David Newhouse +1 more
TL;DR: The relationship between health aid and infant mortality is examined, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004, to imply that achieving the MDG target through additional health aid alone would require a roughly 15-fold increase in current levels of aid.
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The Impact of State Physical Education Requirements on Youth Physical Activity and Overweight
TL;DR: In this paper, the causal impact of PE on student activity and weight was investigated using data from the YRBSS for 1999, 2001, and 2003 merged with data on state minimum PE requirements from the 1994 and 2000 School Health Policies and Programs Study and the 2001 Shape of the Nation Report.
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The Magnitude and Distribution of Fuel Subsidies: Evidence from Bolivia, Ghana, Jordan, Mali, and Sri Lanka
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the issues that need to be discussed when analyzing the fiscal and social costs of fuel subsidies and also identify the magnitude of consumer subsidies and their fiscal implications.
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The impact of state physical education requirements on youth physical activity and overweight.
TL;DR: It is concluded that raising PE credit requirements may make girls more physically active overall but there is not yet the scientific base to declare raising PE requirements an anti-obesity initiative for either boys or girls.