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27 Matches for "Brazil"
Click on the document number to view an abstract or to order a document.
| 1998 |
Family Level Clustering of Childhood Mortality Risk in Northeast Brazil.
RP-668 |
| 1998 |
Community Characteristics, Individual and Household Attributes, and Child Survival in
Brazil. RP-653 |
| 1998 |
A Nested Frailty Model for Survival Data, with an Application to the Study of Child
Survival in Northeast Brazil. RP-652 |
| 1998 |
What Explains Rural-Urban Differentials in Child Mortality in Brazil? RP-651 |
| 1997 |
Health and Wages: Evidence on Men and Women in Urban Brazil. RP-633 |
| 1996 |
Effects of Family Background on Earnings and Returns to Schooling: Evidence from
Brazil. RP-531 |
| 1996 |
Parental Investments in Schooling, the Roles of Gender and Resources in Urban
Brazil. DRU-1303-NICHD |
| 1995 |
Family Ties and Labor Markets in the United States and Brazil. RP-384 |
| 1995 |
Like Father Like Son, Like Mother Like Daughter: Parental Resources and Child
Height. RP-381 |
| 1995 |
A Multilevel Hazards Model for Hierarchically Clustered Data: Model Estimation and an
Application to the Study of Child Survival in Northeast Brazil. DRU-1101-RC |
| 1995 |
Health, Wealth and Wages of Men and Women in Urban Brazil. DRU-1089-NICHD |
| 1993 |
Emerging National Space Launch Programs: Economics and Safeguards. R-4179-USDP |
| 1993 |
Family Ties and Labor Markets in the United States and Brazil. DRU-442-NICHD |
| 1991 |
Global Arms Exports to Iraq, 1960-1990. N-3248-USDP |
| 1989 |
Long-Term Economic and Military Trends, 1950-2010. N-2757-USDP |
| 1988 |
Brazilian Arms Production: Partial Dependence. P-7490-RGS |
| 1987 |
The Tenth Period of Soviet Third World Policy. P-7390 |
| 1987 |
The Mitrione Kidnapping in Uruguay. N-1571-DOS/DARPA/RC |
| 1985 |
Eternal Hope: America's International Narcotics Efforts. P-7014 |
| 1980 |
Household Energy Use in Non-OPEC Developing Countries. R-2515-DOE |
| 1980 |
Economic Development and the Old International Order. P-6457 |
| 1978 |
Rhetoric and Reality in North-South Relations. P-6267 |
| 1974 |
Soldiers Versus Gunmen: The Challenge of Urban Guerrilla Warfare. P-5182 |
| 1971 |
Latin American Institutional Development: Changing Military Perspectives in Peru and
Brazil. R-0586-DOS |
| 1969 |
Latin American Institutional Development: The Changing Catholic Church. RM-6136-DOS |
| 1967 |
Italy and Latin America. RM-5400-RC |
| 1967 |
Engineering in Regional Development: A Study of the Role of the Engineer in the
Development of the Brazilian Northeast. P-3530 |
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