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The British Medical Association, in collaboration with MedAct, provided a grant for a short-term project to research national medical association projects supporting the right to health and health-related Millennium Development Goals. The research ...

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioural problems, grade repetition and obesity. We address endogeneity of maternal schooling by instrumenting with variation in schooling costs ...

Healthcare providers' conscientious objection to involvement in certain procedures is grounded in the right to freedom of religion, conscience and thought. However, such conscientious objection can have serious implications for the human rights of ...

While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal ...

The advent of wearable non-invasive sensors for the consumer market has made it cost-effective to conduct studies that integrate physiological measures such as heart rate into data analysis research. In this paper we investigate the predictive value ...

This paper investigates why children work by studying the wage elasticity of child labour supply. Incorporating subsistence constraints in to a model of labour supply, we show that a negative wage elasticity favours the hypothesis that poverty ...