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suggest that PMTCT may have generated increases in knowledge about PMTCT and MTCT, large reductions in child mortality and …Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) is the single most effective HIV prevention intervention in …
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Although a huge literature spanning several disciplines documents an association between poverty and child abuse … this paper, we address this seeming contradiction. Using county-level child abuse data spanning 1996 to 2009 from the … builds on family-time-use models and emphasizes differential risks of abuse associated with a child's time spent with …
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We consider the effect of abortion legalization on births in the United States. A simple theoretical model demonstrates that the impact of abortion legalization on the birth rate is ambiguous, because both pregnancy and abortion decisions could be affected. We use variation in the timing of...
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sex ratio (males to females) in two generations -- those prenatally exposed and their children -- presumably through … heightened male mortality. This tendency toward female offspring is interpretable in light of the Trivers-Willard (1973 …
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adults' willingness to pay for changes in child mortality and also to incorporate the welfare of future generations in the …This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express …
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of alcohol regulation on physical child abuse. Given the … child abuse. Data on violence come from the 1976 and 1985 Physical Violence in American Families surveys. We estimate a … structural model where violence is determined partly by consumption. Both equations are estimated separately for mothers and …
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The correlation between instruments and explanatory variables is a key determinant of the performance of the instrumental variables estimator. The R-squared from regressing the explanatory variable on the instrument vector is a useful measure of relevance in univariate models, but can be...
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The empirical literature on contagion has mainly measured the propagation of shocks across countries using daily stock markets, interest rates, and exchange rates. Several methodologies have been used for this purpose, however, the properties of the data introduces important limitations on the...
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Innovation was rampant in the computer industry during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Did innovation vastly extend the capabilities of computers or simply reduce the costs of doing the same thing? This question goes to the heart of whether the rate of decline in 'constant-quality' computing...
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In this paper, I develop a new identification method to solve the problem of simultaneous equations, based on heteroskedasticity of the structural shocks. I show that if the heteroskedasticity can be described as a two-regime process, then the system is just identified under relatively weak...
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