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Accounting for the Impact of Medicaid on Child Poverty
Korenman, Sanders - 2019
US Census Bureau poverty measures do not include an explicit need for health care or insurance nor do they consider health insurance benefits to be resources. Consequently, they cannot measure the direct impact of health insurance benefits on poverty. This paper reviews conceptual and practical...
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Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa
McMillan, Margaret S. - 2013
This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the...
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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of 1991 on economic performance. We do not find persuasive the contention of many analysts that growth accelerated after the mid-1980s when reforms were initiated. Nor does...
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Poverty and Health
Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Schwandt, Hannes; Wherry, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries across individuals. However, not all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of poverty on health vary across place and time. In this review, we discuss the evidence documenting these patterns,...
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The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa : Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys
Case, Anne - 2009
We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunization for children born between...
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Violence Against Women : A Cross-cultural Analysis for Africa
Alesina, Alberto - 2016
Using a new dataset, we investigate the determinants of violence against women in Africa. We focus on cultural factors …
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An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2013
Eleven percent of the Malawian population is HIV infected. Eighteen percent of sexual encounters are casual. A condom is used one quarter of the time. A choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed to analyze the Malawian epidemic. In the developed framework, people select...
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Can the West Save Africa?
Easterly, William - 2008
In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a … celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey … contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach (West saves Africa) to occasional swings to a "marginal" approach (West …
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Bad Lighting : Effects of Youth Indoor Tanning Prohibitions
Carpenter, Christopher; Churchill, Brandyn F.; Marcus, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Indoor tanning beds (ITBs) emit UV light at high intensity and have been classified as carcinogenic to humans by the World Health Organization since 2009. We are the first to study the role of state laws prohibiting youths from indoor tanning using a difference-in-differences research design. We...
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses on Excess Mortality
Agrawal, Virat; Cantor, Jonathan H.; Sood, Neeraj; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
As a way of slowing COVID-19 transmission, many countries and U.S. states implemented shelter-in-place (SIP) policies. However, the effects of SIP policies on public health are a priori ambiguous as they might have unintended adverse effects on health. The effect of SIP policies on COVID-19...
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