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Examining underlying determinants of fertility rates in Zambia:Evidence from the 2007 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Underlying determinants Fertility Education Wealth Zambia
2016/7/7
Limited data exits on factors influencing fertility in Zambia. This study examined underlying determinants of fertility patterns and levels in Zambia. Data extracted from the 2007 Zambia Demographic a...
The Accuracy of Age Reporting among Elderly African Americans:Evidence of a Birth Registration Effect
Age Reporting Elderly African Americans Birth Registration
2016/3/18
This paper expands on previous research that has documented relatively high levels of inconsistency in age information for elderly African Americans. Drawing on a sample of death certificates for Mary...
Childhood Conditions and Adult Health:Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Childhood Conditions Adult Health Health Retirement
2016/3/18
Poor health and premature death are direct manifestations of biological processes influenced by genetic,environmental, and life style factors. These factors operate throughout the life course and inte...
Adult Mortality Among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders:A Review of the Evidence
Adult Mortality Asian Americans Pacific Islanders
2016/3/18
Mortality estimates have consistently pointed to a sizable health advantage for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders compared to white Americans, but a question remains as to whether mortality estima...
The Behavioral Economics of Altruism,Reciprocity,and Transfers within Families and Rural Communities:Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Transfers Triple Dictator Games Trust Games Malawi HIV/AIDS Game theory Transfer behavior
2016/3/18
Transfers between strangers, neighbors, families, and spouses were examined using Triple Dictator Games (TDG, involving only givings) and Trust Games (TG, involving both givings and reciprocations) am...
How Universal School Vouchers Affect Educational and Labor Market Outcomes:Evidence from Chile
School vouchers Educational attainment Labor market EPS survey Wage returns Subsidized schools
2016/3/18
This paper studies the effects of school vouchers in Chile, which adopted a nationwide school voucher program 28 years ago. Chile has a relatively unregulated, decentralized, competitive market in pri...
Health of Native-born and Foreign-born Black Residents in the United States:Evidence from the 2000 Census of Population and the National Health Interview Survey
PUMS NHIS Disability Self-rated health Chronic conditions Black US residents Immigrant health advantage
2016/3/18
Utilizing the 5% Public Use Micro Data Sample (PUMS) from the 2000 Census of Population and 2000-2006 waves of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), we examine differences in disability, self-r...
Inaccurate age and sex data in the Census PUMS files:Evidence and Implications
Census PUMS files Age Sex Data
2016/3/18
We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and m...
How Beliefs about HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors:Evidence from Malawi
HIV Testing Results Beliefs MDICP Sexual behavior Disease prevalence Risk Exposure
2016/3/18
Many HIV testing programs in Africa and elsewhere aim to reduce risk-taking behaviors by providing individuals with information about their own HIV status. This paper examines how beliefs about own HI...
The Effects of Child-Bearing Policies in Remarriages:Evidence from China
Fertility policy Marriages Divorces Remarriages
2016/3/18
In this paper we document the fertility policies for remarried couples in the People's Republic of China, and investigate their effects on the women's first marriages. Our evidence suggests that the c...
Health Expenditure Risk and Annuitization:Evidence from Medigap Coverage
Annuitization Health expenditures Health insurance Medigap Risk
2016/3/18
Theoretical research suggests that health expenditure risk can have an ambiguous influence on the annuitization decisions of the elderly. I provide empirical evidence on this linkage, by estimating th...
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND MICRO‐CREDIT ACTIVITIES IN RURAL NEPAL:EVIDENCE FROM KATHMANDU AND SINDHUPLACHOWK DISTRICTS
rural women economic lives
2016/1/28
The overall aim this article is to examine the role of micro credit and its impact on socio‐
economic lives of rural women in Lapsephedi, Nanglebhare and Fatakshila Village
Development Committees (V...
Love and Money by Parental Matchmaking: Evidence from Urban Couples in China
Parental Matchmaking Urban Couples
2015/9/21
Marriage formation is often modeled as a matching process where males and females
meet randomly or via commercial agents (Weiss 1997). This approach omits a unique feature of
marriage, that is, no...
Teen Pregnancy Prevention as an Anti-Poverty Intervention: A Review of the Evidence
Anti-Poverty Intervention:Evidence
2015/9/21
his paper was prepared for the conference volume “Targeting Investments in Children:
Fighting Poverty when Resources Are Limited”. The author gratefully acknowledges
helpful comments from volume edi...
The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the SIPP
Household Outcomes SIPP
2015/9/21
We use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate the impact that
child Supplemental Security Income (SSI) enrollment has on household outcomes including poverty,
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