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Does the Delivery of Primary Health Care Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from the Rollout of Community Health Centers

Kose, Esra; O'Keefe, Siobhan M.; Rosales-Rueda, Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Introduced as part of the War on Poverty, Community Health Centers (CHCs) deliver primary care to underserved populations by locating sliding-scale clinics in economically disadvantaged areas. We investigate how this policy affected infant health using the rollout of CHCs and a flexible event...

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Comparing China REACH and the Jamaica Home Visiting Program

Zhou, Jin; Heckman, James J.; Liu, Bei; Mai, Lu; Chang, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper summarizes empirical findings from a series of recent papers studying a replication of the Jamaica Reach Up … original program. An analysis of it facilitates investigation of the skills generated by Jamaica Reach Up and Learn. We find …, treatment effect sizes and skill growth curves are comparable across the Jamaica and China REACH interventions, despite …

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Violent Discipline and Parental Behavior : Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers

Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ravindran, Saravana; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

study the impact of a virtually-delivered intervention on positive parenting practices in Jamaica. We find the intervention …

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Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development : Experimental Evidence from Brazil

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Barros, Ricardo Paes de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

caregivers over the course of seven years after enrollment into daycare. At the end of 2007, the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil …

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Cash Transfers for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India

Weaver, Jeffrey; Sukhtankar, Sandip; Niehaus, Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the relationship between income and child development in the...

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Accessing the Safety Net : How Medicaid Affects Health and Recidivism

Packham, Analisa; Slusky, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the causal impact of access to means-tested public health insurance coverage (Medicaid) on health outcomes and recidivism for those recently released from incarceration. To do so, we leverage a policy change in South Carolina that allowed simplified Medicaid re-enrollment for...

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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance

Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between aggregate labor market conditions and birth outcomes is mitigated by the consumption smoothing income assistance delivered through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a...

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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth

Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

correlated with local levels of pollution. The improvement in birth weight from moving to a higher-quality area compares …

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The Intergenerational Consequences of Economic Distress : In-Utero Exposure to Financial Crises and Birth Outcomes

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper uses the severe economic crisis in Turkey in 2008 as a quasi-experiment to evaluate the impact of worsening economic conditions during pregnancy on birth outcomes. Exploiting the temporal and spatial variations in economic hardship across provinces, we show that the deep economic...

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Community-Based Health Programs and Child Vaccinations : Evidence from Madagascar

Herrera, Catalina; Rosales-Rueda, Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Vaccinations are a cost-effective tool to prevent child mortality and morbidity; however, their access and take-up remain low in developing countries. We analyze the effects on child vaccinations of a large-scale community-based health worker program that aimed to reach remote areas distant from...

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