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Prevalence of urinary iodine concentration among school children: in Dessie City, Ethiopia
Background Urinary iodine is recommended by the world health organization as the main indicator to assess iodine status in a population. Despite this recommendation little is known about urinary iodine concentration in the study area.
Birtukan Shiferaw Ayalew +5 more
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Risk sharing and public transfers [PDF]
We use public transfers in the form of food aid to test for the presence of risk sharing arrangements at the village level in rural Ethiopia. We reject perfect risk-sharing, but find evidence of partial risk-sharing via transfers. There is also evidence consistent with crowding out of informal insurance linked to food aid programmes.
Dercon, Stefan, Krishnan, Pramila
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This paper presents a systematic literature review focused on the use of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) combined with PCA, a multivariate technique, for determining the geographical origin of plant foods.
Quang Trung Nguyen +7 more
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Rotten Spouses, Family Transfers and Public Goods [PDF]
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker’s rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable, hitherto unnoticed, implications. Specifically, Cornes and Silva’s (J Polit Econ 107(5):1034–1040, 1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting where the contributors (spouses) belong to different ...
Cremer, Helmuth, Roeder, Kerstin
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Given the aim of increasing public transport patronage, it is important to understand how passengers perceive different trip characteristics. Most of the existing studies about public transport demand and route choice assigned a higher value of time to ...
O. A. Nielsen +3 more
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Human bocavirus (HBoV) 1 is considered an important respiratory pathogen, while the role of HBoV2-4 in clinical disease remains somewhat controversial.
Sunčanica Ljubin-Sternak +7 more
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Background Governments must protect and apply maximum feasible resourcing to the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding in order to meet their international legal obligations with respect to the human rights of women and children.
Carina Stone, Julie P. Smith
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Optimal intergenerational transfers: Public education and pensions [PDF]
Abstract In presence of imperfections in the education loan market, the standard policy response of intervening solely on the education front, funded through taxes and transfers, necessarily hurts the initial working population. The literature suggests compensating them via Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) pensions as a possible solution.
Monisankar Bishnu +3 more
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INTRODUCTION[|]Between 76% and 85% of people with severe mental disorders receive no treatment in low-income and middle-income countries; the corresponding range for high-income countries is high, ranging between 35% and 50%.
Taye Zeru Tadege +1 more
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