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Health and Nutrient Consumption Across and Within Farm Households
Mark M. Pitt,Mark R. Rosenzweig +1 more
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This article is published in The Review of Economics and Statistics.The article was published on 1985-05-01. It has received 192 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Consumption (economics).read more
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An Illustration of a Pitfall in Estimating the Effects of Aggregate Variables on Micro Units
TL;DR: The authors illustrates the danger of spurious regression from this kind of misspecification, using as an example a wage regression estimated on data for individual workers that includes in the specification aggregate regressors for characteristics of geographical states.
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Chapter 14 Health and nutrition
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey on existing studies of both health and nutrition determinants and on their productivity influence and conclude with some discussion of policy issues and directions for future research.
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Will Developing Country Nutrition Improve with Income? A Case Study for Rural South India
TL;DR: This article showed that the high degree of aggregation at which such estimates are made means that the considerable increase in price per nutrient as income increases is ignored, and the nutrient elasticities are therefore overstated.
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Food Security and Food Assistance Programs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss both food security and food assistance programs and present a basic analytical model of food security, approached as a subtopic of the economics of health, and discuss the multiple threats to food security.
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The determinants and consequences of the placement of government programs in Indonesia
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of public programs on basic human capital indicators and the biases in conventional cross-sectional estimates of program effects due to non-random program placement are reported.
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Alternative Tests of Independence between Stochastic Regressors and Disturbances
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine four alternative tests of independence between the stochastic regressors and disturbances in a linear regression model and give examples of applications of the test in econometrics.
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Estimating a Household Production Function: Heterogeneity, the Demand for Health Inputs, and Their Effects on Birth Weight
TL;DR: Estimates of health technology must be obtained from a behavioral model in which health inputs are themselves choices, which leads to correlations between inputs and health outcomes that cannot be used to derive causal conclusions.
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Demographic variables in demand analysis
Robert A. Pollak,Terence Wales +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, five procedures for incorporating demographic variables into theoretically plausible demand systems were discussed: translating scaling and the Gorman reverse Gorman and implicit Prais-Houthakker procedures.
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More evidence on nutrition demand: Income seems overrated and women's schooling underemphasized
Jere R. Behrman,Barbara Wolfe +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that income elasticities are small and inversely associated with income levels, there are some economies of scale in household size, the elasticity for women's schooling is higher than those for income or household size and women's backgrounds are important.