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The Effects of Incentivizing Early Prenatal Care on Infant Health
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2022
We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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Global climate change and the resurgence of tropical disease: An economic approach
Gollin, Douglas; Zimmermann, Christian - 2010
We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270544
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Evaluating nationwide health interventions when standard before-after doesn't work: Malawi's ITN distribution program
Deuchert, Eva; Wunsch, Conny - 2010
Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric estimator that is based on the assumption that the intervention has no direct effect on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270548
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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … particular, more impatient children and adolescents are more likely to spend money on alcohol and cigarettes, have a higher body …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118350
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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity
den Bijgaart, Inge van; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021
Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...
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Health Expenditures and the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Prevention in International Comparison
Hansen, Jaqueline; Reinecke, Antonia; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2021
In the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments had to rely on Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions in their struggle against the spread of the virus. The stringency of the lockdowns differed across space and time as governments had to adjust their strategy dynamically to the country-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228599
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Droughts and Malnutrition in Africa
Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2023
How costly are droughts to individuals’ nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite-based vegetation index observed bi-monthly for 0.08° grids between 1982 and 2015. Across 32 African countries, conditional on individual characteristics, timing relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357628
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Children's Social Care and Early Intervention Policy in England
Anderberg, Dan - 2020
We study the relationship between a key early intervention policy designed to support families with children up to the … age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care. The gradual build-up of over 3,600 Sure Start … Children's Centres (SSCC), operated by Local Authorities across England, created large spatial and cohort variation in the …
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Socio-Economic Determinants of Child Marriage : Evidence from the Iranian Provinces
Asna-ashary, Mozhgan - 2020
and services. To reduce child marriage, which has long-run negative effects on the development of children, policymakers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841933
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Mothers' Care : Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina - 2019
, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892138