Re-examining the relationship between income and child health on both sides of the Atlantic (2008)
M. Harris, B. Inder, B. Inder, P. Maitra
There has been a significant amount of literature on the relationship between household income and children’s health, and in particular, whether this relationship is constant as a child ages. That...
Re-examining the relationship between income and child health on both sides of the Atlantic (2008)
M. Harris, B. Inder, B. Inder, P. Maitra
There has been a significant amount of literature on the relationship between household income and children’s health, and in particular, whether this relationship is constant as a child ages. That...
The Effect of Education on the Timing of Marriage and First Conception in Pakistan.
It is often argued that a rapid rise in educational attainment of women, an increase in the age at marriage and an increase in the age at first birth are key features of demographic transition in any...
Gender and Child Mortality in Pakistan.
In this paper we use child level data from Pakistan to estimate the probability of the child dying and the number of days the child was alive before dying. We find that overall girls have a higher...
Motives for Inter-Household Transfers in South Africa.
This paper examines the patterns of inter-household transfers using a national survey data from South Africa. Compared to an African household, a non-African is less likely to receive and send...
The Effect of Transfers on Household Expenditure Patterns and Poverty in South Africa.
This paper uses household level unit record data from South Africa to examine the behavioural and welfare impacts of private and public transfers. The study also examines the effect of economies of...
This paper tests, using data from South Africa and Pakistan, two major implications of the unitary household model, namely, that (a) each individual pools the various components of her/his non labour...
The Impact of Resource Inflows on Child Health: Evidence from South Africa.
This paper investigates the changes to health care facilities and the nutritional status of Black children during the first 5 years of democratic rule in South Africa.
Investment in Child Schooling: Theory and Evidence Usign Data from South Africa.
This paper examines optimal investment in children's schooling using a two-period model. Children are assumed to contribute in an economic sense through child labour when they are young and through...
Two Aspects of Fertility Behaviour in South Africa.
This paper examines the effects of individual, household and community characteristics on two aspects of fertility among South African women the age at first conception and the number of pregnancies....
Fertility - Mortality Interaction in South Africa.
Fertility and child mortality are supposed to have a two-way relationship. First, woment who experience more child deaths go on to bear more children compared to women whose children survive. Second,...
This paper uses data from Peru, Pakistan and Ghana to simultaneously analyse child labour and child schooling, and compares them between these countries. We use a multinomial logit estimation...
Trends in Natural Resource Commodity Prices in Australia.
In this paper we examine the trends in the prices of natural resource commodities in Australia. The existing literature predicts rising prices for minerals, indicative of scarcity. We present a menu...
Fertility-Mortality Interactions in South Africa.
Fertility and child mortality are supposed to have a two-way relationship. First, women who experience more child deaths go on to bear more children compared to women whose children survive. Second,...
Testing for Son Preference in South Africa.
Evidence from most developing countries suggest that parents have a preference for sons over daughters. This is know as son preference. This paper uses individual level unit record data to test the...