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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation … in legislator identity generated by close elections between Muslim and non-Muslim candidates. We find that increasing the …
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The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh Famine
Hernández-Julián, Rey; Mansour, Hani; Peters, Christina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy outcomes. Using the 1996 Matlab Health and...
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The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition
Newell, Andrew T.; Gazeley, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was roughly halfway through a 60-year demographic transition with declining infant mortality and birth rates. Cities exhibited great and strongly correlated diversity in these rates. We demonstrate cross-section correlations with, for instance,...
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The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives
Anukriti, S - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to...
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...
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Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India
Brainerd, Elizabeth; Menon, Nidhiya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations … groups – children of uneducated poor women living in rural India. …
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Valente, Christine; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … communities and especially the Muslim deficit in parental education predict a Hindu advantage. Alternative outcomes and … specifications support our finding of a Muslim fixed effect that favours survival. The results of this study contribute to a recent …
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Infant Health and Longevity: Evidence from a Historical Trial in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
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Peer Effects on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in China
Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; He, Xiaobo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual heterogeneity are controlled for, it is evident that such...
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Domestic Abuse and Child Health
Rawlings, Samantha; Siddique, Zahra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the effects of different kinds of domestic abuse (physical violence, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and physical violence while the victim is pregnant) on health outcomes of children born to victims. We use data on approximately 0.6 million children born between 1975 and 2013 across...
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