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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes : Evidence from India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 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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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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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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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth

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

This paper uses birth records from California and mothers who move to quantify the absolute and relative importance of birth location in early-life health. Using a model that includes mother and location fixed effects, we find that moving from a below- to an above-median birth weight location...

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Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of Deworming : Experimental Evidence from Two Decades of the Kenya Life Panel Survey

Walker, Michael W.; Huang, Alice H.; Asman, Suleiman; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We assess the impacts of a randomized school-based deworming intervention in Kenya on the mortality of recipients' children using a 23-year longitudinal data set of over 6,500 original participants and their offspring. The under-5 mortality rate fell by 22% (17 deaths per 1000 live births) for...

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Human Capital and Climate Change

Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...

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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land...

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Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in mortality from treatable causes, and especially large declines in child mortality. We find delayed childbearing, with lower intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline...

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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 … explanatory factor for the poor translation of increases in income into child growth in India …

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The Long-Run Effects of Psychotherapy on Depression, Beliefs, and Economic Outcomes

Bhat, Bhargav; De Quidt, Jonathan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We revisit two clinical trials that randomized depressed adults in India (n=775) to a brief course of psychotherapy or …

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