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Parental bargaining and rural-urban child health differential in Tanzania

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  • Alfred K. Mukong
  • Justine Burns

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This paper extends the empirical analysis of child health by simultaneously considering the effects and contributions of parental bargaining to the rural-urban child health differential in Tanzania, a country where most communities are patriarchal in nature. The study uses the Heckman two-step procedure to correct for possible sample selection bias. The results suggest that domestic […]

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  • Alfred K. Mukong & Justine Burns, 2017. "Parental bargaining and rural-urban child health differential in Tanzania," Working Papers 715, Economic Research Southern Africa.
    • Handle: RePEc:rza:wpaper:715
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    Keywords

    Africa; econometric modelling; Emerging economies; health; Healthcare; rural development;
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    JEL classification:

    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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