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family's health, nutrition, and finances. However, this does not increase overall adoption of health-promoting behaviors or … use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of a communication training program for mothers on child health in … husbands and, thereby, boost investments in children's health. We find that the program increases spousal discussion about the …
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when the global burden of mental health illness is also on the rise. We examine the causal impact of early life exposure to … warfare on long-term mental health, using novel data on the amount of bombs dropped in German cities by Allied Air Forces … significantly worse mental health later in life when they are between ages late 50s and 70s. Specifically, an increase of one …
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This paper shows that ethnically remote locations do not reap the full peace dividend from increased market access. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for...
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Debilitating events could leave either frailer or more robust survivors, depending on the extent of scarring and mortality selection. The majority of empirical analyses find frailer survivors. I find heterogeneous effects. Among severely stressed former Union Army POWs, which effect dominates 35...
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health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure …
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Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax …-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition …. First, health insurance would boost fiscal revenues for health care, as post-treatment out-of-pocket payments to providers …
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Mental health disorders account for a significant share of the overall global disease burden. The economic losses from … shocks. We test whether improved communication can mitigate such mental health disorders. Partnering with a major … communication credit to low-income adults is a cost-effective policy for improving mental health. Communication - the ability to …
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did not affect other health-seeking behavior of mothers. The results illustrate the potential spillover effects of …
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Bias among health care providers can lead to poor-quality care and poor health outcomes, and it can exacerbate …
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Early fertility is a key barrier to female human capital attainment in sub-Saharan Africa, yet contraceptive take-up remains puzzlingly low, even among educated populations with healthcare access. We study a barrier to hormonal contraceptive uptake that has not been causally tested: the...
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