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Child mortality and fertility in Colombia: individual and community effects.
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The empirical analysis confirms that in urban areas the availability of medical services, family planning activities, transportational infrastructure and climate, in addition to mother's education, are associated with child mortality ratios and fertility within a birth cohort of mothers.About:
This article is published in Health Policy and Education.The article was published on 1982-03-01. It has received 196 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Child mortality & Fertility.read more
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Human resources: empirical modeling of household and family decisions.
John Strauss,Duncan Thomas +1 more
TL;DR: A literature review focusing on education and health in its examination of the role that households and families play in choosing how to invest the human capital of their members is presented in this paper.
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Human Development in Poor Countries: On the Role of Private Incomes and Public Services
Sudhir Anand,Martin Ravallion +1 more
TL;DR: A conceptual underpinning for this approach can be found in the work of Amartya Sen as discussed by the authors, who argued that human development is the overriding purpose of economic development, rather than income growth of one sort or another is what development is all about.
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Economic Growth and Human Development
TL;DR: The connections between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD) form two chains as discussed by the authors, with public expenditures on health and education, notably female, especially important in the chain from EG to HD; and the investment rate and income distribution significant in the HD to EG chain.
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Maternal education and child survival in developing countries: the search for pathways of influence.
TL;DR: Assessment of the various mechanisms or intervening factors which could explain how mother's education influences the health and survivorship of her children is made and the relevance of such studies for formulation of health and educational policies is stressed.
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Contagion: Understanding How It Spreads
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the importance of other links through which shocks are normally transmitted including trade and finance, and identify the types of links and other macroeconomic conditions that can make a country vulnerable to contagion during crisis periods.
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On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health
TL;DR: A model of the demand for the commodity "good health" is constructed and it is shown that the shadow price rises with age if the rate of depreciation on the stock of health rises over the life cycle and falls with education if more educated people are more efficient producers of health.
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A re-estimation of the multiplying factors for the Brass technique for determining childhood survivorship rates.
TL;DR: A set of model fertility schedules which adequately duplicates empirical fertility schedules has been developed and were used to test the Brass and Sullivan procedures and to obtain new estimates of multiplying factors.
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Methods of Analysis and Estimation
William Brass,Ansley J. Coale +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors fit logit transformations of observed and model life table survival rates to a power function that preserves the extreme values p(0) = 1, p(ω) = 0, where p(x) is the probability of surviving from birth to age x.
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Further developments in indirect mortality estimation
Kenneth Hill,James Trussell +1 more
TL;DR: In conclusion, the features common to all indirect mortality estimation procedures are outlined, and the direction future developments may take in response to gradually improving data quality is suggested.
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Estimating the covariates of childhood mortality from retrospective reports of mothers.
James Trussell,Samuel H. Preston +1 more
TL;DR: Even incomplete mortality data of the type collected in household surveys or censuses can yield estimates which are very close to those based on the much richer wealth of data collected in detailed maternity histories, according to this paper.
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