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Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings : evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2016

and occupation at age 36-40, and pension income at age 71. Leveraging quasi-random variation in eligibility by birth date …, we find very substantial increases in employment (especially in the public sector) and income among women, alongside …

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The twin instrument

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016

Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for more than 18 million births (more than 500,000...

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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018

impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by … aggregate shocks and trends in unobservables within countries, while a panel of children within mother is exploited to control …

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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys, and the relative chances of girls surviving...

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Maternal depression, women's empowerment, and parental investment : evidence from a large randomized control trial

Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Biroli, Pietro; … - 2017

We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting decisions. We leverage experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial that provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one...

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Twin birth and maternal condition

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018

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The captain of the men of death and his shadow : long-run impacts of early life pneumonia exposure

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - 2011

after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and … ; income ; disability ; mortality trends …

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Cognitive development and infectious disease : gender differences in investments and outcomes

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - 2013

differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls …

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First and second generation impacts of the biafran war

Akresh, Richard; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Leone, Marinella; … - 2017

impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …

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