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Does Violent Crime Deter Physical Activity?

Janke, Katharina; Propper, Carol; Shields, Michael - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2013

Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an important type of behaviour: individuals’ participation in their local area through walking and physical activity. We use a sample of nearly 1 million people residing in over 320...

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Fatal Fluctuations? - Cyclicality in Infant Mortality in India

Bhalotra, Sonia - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2007

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely … mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality at most ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer … countries are scarce, and both income risk and mortality risk are greater in poor countries. This paper uses individual data on …

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Understanding the Relationship between Parental Income and Multiple Child Outcomes: a decomposition analysis

Gregg, Paul; Propper, Carol; Washbrook, Elizabeth - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2008

In this paper we explore the association between family income and children’s cognitive ability (IQ and school performance), socio-emotional outcomes (self esteem, locus of control and behavioural problems) and physical health (risk of obesity). We develop a decomposition technique that allows...

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War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War

Akresh, Richard; Bhalotra, Sonia; Leone, Marinella; … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2011

The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...

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Long-term effects of a nutritional shock: the 1980 famine of Karamoja, Uganda

UmanaAponte, Marcela - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2011

This paper uses the 1980 famine in Karamoja, Uganda, as a natural experiment to evaluate its possible long‐lasting cognitive and health effects. Results indicate a strong negative impact on the educational attainment of adults exposed to the famine in utero or infancy. They were less likely to...

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Is there an Income Gradient in Child Health? It depends whom you ask

Johnston, David W.; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen E.; … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2010

A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the socioeconomic gradient are likely to be biased and potentially...

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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2009

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to 600000 mothers during...

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Birth Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality in India:Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity

Bhalotra, Sonia; Soest, Arthur van - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2007

A dynamic panel data model of neonatal mortality and birth spacing is analyzed, accounting for causal effects of birth … spacing on subsequent mortality and of mortality on the length of the next birth interval, while controlling for unobserved … heterogeneity in mortality (frailty) and birth spacing (fecundity). The model is estimated using micro data on almost 30 …

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Religion and Childhood Death in India

Bhalotra, Sonia; Valente, Christine; Soest, Arthur van - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2008

Muslim children in India face substantially lower mortality risks than Hindu children. This is surprising because one … attention in India, higher mortality amongst Hindus has gone largely unnoticed. This paper considers this seeming puzzle in …

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Local Neighbourhood and Mental Health: Evidence from the UK

Propper, Carol; Jones, Kelvyn; Bolster, Anne; Burgess, Simon - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2004

Using a very local definition of neighbourhood, and characterising that neighbourhood along five relatively orthogonal dimensions based on the socio-economic characteristics of the population of the neighbourhood, this paper examines the association between neighbourhood and levels and changes...

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