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Parental Influences on Health and Longevity : Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees
Lindahl, Mikael - 2016
To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between...
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Medication of Postpartum Depression and Maternal Outcomes : Evidence from Geographic Variation in Dutch Prescribing
Currie, Janet M.; Zwiers, Esmée S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using data on over 420,000 first time Dutch mothers, we examine the effects of postpartum antidepressant use on a wide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660116
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Gender Roles and Medical Progress
Albanesi, Stefania - 2009
effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to work, while the introduction of infant formula reduced mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463775
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From Home to Hospital : The Evolution of Childbirth in the United States, 1927-1940
Thomasson, Melissa A. - 2004
, hospitals posed a greater risk for black mothers prior to the availability of sulfa drugs in 1937, and were less beneficial for …
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Overcoming Behavioral Impediments to Maternal Care : Experimental Evidence on Domain Knowledge and Nudgeability from Recalcitrant Pakistan
Cyan, Musharraf Rasool; Cesur, Resul; Civelek, Yasin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conducted a large-scale field experiment to calibrate phone messaging to its potential of overcoming behavioral barriers to maternal care uptake in the countryside of a developing country, where a significant share of women forgoes life-saving maternity-related care even when within reach....
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Measuring the Impact of Health Insurance on Levels and Trends in Inequality
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2010
A substantial part of the inequality literature in the United States has focused on yearly levels and trends in income and its distribution over time. Recent findings in that literature show that median income appears to be stagnating with income growth primarily coming at higher income levels....
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Insurance and the High Prices of Pharmaceuticals
Besanko, David - 2016
We present a model in which prospective patients are liquidity constrained, and thus health insurance allows patients access to treatments and services that they otherwise would have been unable to afford. Consistent with large expansions of insurance in the U.S. (e.g., the Affordable Care Act),...
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Is There "Too Much" Inequality in Health Spending Across Income Groups?
Ales, Laurence - 2012
In this paper we study the efficient allocation of health resources across individuals. We focus on the relation between health resources and income (taken as a proxy for productivity). In particular we determine the efficient level of the health care social safety net for the indigent. We...
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Mothers’ Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation
Andrew, Alison - 2020
in rural Odisha, India. This is a group for whom highly-gendered norms around marriage, mobility and work are likely to … shape opportunities to form and maintain meaningful ties with other women. We track the social networks of 2,170 mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482268
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema - 2009
female child mortality in India, or about 22,000 "missing girls" each year … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …
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