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surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child … health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …
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child health and measures of parenting quality are associated with performance on the TVIP. Children with lower hemoglobin …"Paxson and Schady examine the relationship between early cognitive development, socioeconomic status, child health …, and parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children …
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"Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature … parents and the type of relationship that links the children to their 'adoptive 'families. The results of the analysis suggest …, more nurture, or both? De Walque uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living …
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Children need a safe, nurturing, healthy, and stimulating environment to thrive and reach their full potential. But … millions of children living in poverty don't receive enough stimulation or good nutrition in their first years of life, and … addressed in programs promoting young children's development, which also typically focus on mothers, with little attention on …
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the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between …
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with the economic models of child health, it explores the relationship between altitude and child health within a … cluster through multilevel statistical modeling. After controlling for characteristics of the children, families, and … communities, the data show a significant nonlinear relationship between altitude and child nutritional status. Peruvian children …
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for children in migrant households. These results provide a broader and more nuanced view of the health consequences of …"The authors investigate the impact of international migration on child health outcomes in rural Mexico using a … to the United States in order to correct for the possible endogeneity of migrant status. They find that children in …
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Maternal health remains one of the top priorities of the Government of Indonesia (GoI) and the Ministry of Health (MoH … to health services, the government is implementing the social insurance scheme, Jamkesmas. Approximately 104 million … people should qualify for assistance but there are presently only 76.4 million people covered by this social health insurance …
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