| Subbarao, K. and L. Raney, (1995). Social Gains From Female Education: A CrossNational Study,Economic Development and Cultural Change, 44 (1), October. |
.... year of schooling has been shown to raise a womans earnings by about 15 percent compared with 11 percent for a man (Lim, 1996) Female education also has major social returns, contributing to improved household health and welfare, lower infant and child mortality, and slower population growth (Subbarao and Raney, 1995). Agricultures economic contributions to health and food safety Food consumers, whether motivated by green concerns or by concerns for health and food safety, are increasingly interested in where food comes from and how it is produced, processed, packaged and distributed. These health and food ....
Subbarao, K. and L. Raney, (1995). Social Gains From Female Education: A CrossNational Study,Economic Development and Cultural Change, 44 (1), October.
.... (Ramalingaswami, Johnsson, and Rohde 1996; Osmani 1997) 3) How important of a determinant of child malnutrition is food availability at a national level (Smith et al. 1998; Haddad, Webb, and Slack 1997) 4) How important are women s status and education (Quisumbing et al. 1995; Osmani 1997; Subbarao and Raney 1995); 5) How important are national political factors (such as democracy) and national incomes, and through what pathways do they affect child malnutrition (Anand and Ravallion 1993; Pritchett and Summers 1996) By answering these questions we hope to contribute to the debate on how to make the best ....
....workers. conclude that average income matters, but only insofar as it reduces poverty and finances key social services (p. 144) They find that one third of national incomes effect on life 3 expectancy is through poverty reduction and two thirds through increased public health spending. Subbarao and Raney (1995) focus on the role of female education using a sample of 72 developing countries and data over the period 1970 to 1985. Employing OLS regression, they regress infant mortality rates (IMR) in 1985 on female and male gross secondary school enrollment ratios lagged five and ten years, GDP per capita ....
Subbarao, K., and Laura Raney (1995). "Social Gains from Female Education: A CrossNational Study." Economic Development and Cultural Change. Vol. 44, No. 1, pp.
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