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Evaluating the impact of community-based health interventions: evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
Rocha, Romero; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2009
This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We find consistent effects of the program on reductions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276694
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Evaluating the impact of community-based health interventions : evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
Rocha, Romero; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2009
This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We find consistent effects of the program on reductions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831242
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Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions : Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
Rocha, Romero - 2009
This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and schooling, employment of adults, and fertility. We find consistent effects of the program on reductions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763930
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Supporting families and children beyond COVID-19 : social protection in high-income countries
Richardson, Dominic; Carraro, Alessandro; Cebotari, Victor - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191437
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Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions : Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
Rocha, Romero; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2010
This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program, using municipality level mortality data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, and individual level data from the Brazilian household survey. We estimate the effects of the program on mortality and on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561902
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Does prenatal WIC participation improve child outcomes?
Chorniy, Anna V.; Currie, Janet M.; Sonchak, Lyudmyla - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883669
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Causal analysis of policy effects on fertility
Hart, Rannveig Kaldager; Bergsvik, Janna; Fauske, Agnes; … - 2023
This chapter reviews the literature on the causal effects of policies on fertility. It focuses on evidence from experiments and quasi-experiments in low fertility contexts, including studies from Europe, Northern America, Oceania and Asia. Making no a priori restrictions on policy type, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383573
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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? : Twins, birthweight, and China's 'one child' policy
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade … area of China, an extra child at parity one or at parity two, net of birthweight effects, significantly decreases the … deficit of twins. Despite the evident significant trade-off between number of children and child quality in China, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310954
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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? : Twins, birthweight, and China's "one child" policy
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2006
In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade … area of China, an extra child at parity one or at parity two, net of birthweight effects, significantly decreases the … deficit of twins. Despite the evident significant trade-off between number of children and child quality in China, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809742
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Quantity-quality and the one child policy : the only-child disadvantage in school enrollment in rural China
Qian, Nancy - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003880876