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Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer; … - 2018

This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and implement it in the field across 44 towns in India. We find that religious minority leaders...

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Religion and abortion : the role of politician identity

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2018

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India, we find lower rates of female foeticide in districts with Muslim legislators, which we argue reflects a greater (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts...

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Religion, politician identity and development outcomes : evidence from India

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - 2013

political representation of Muslims improves health and education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected …

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Path-breakers : how does women's political participation respond to electoral success?

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2013

This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant...

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Sibling death clustering in India : state dependence vs. unobserved heterogeneity

Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor); … - 2006

Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A natural explanation of this would be that there are (observed or unobserved) differences across...

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Socioemotional skills in early childhood : evidence from a maternal psychosocial intervention

Sevim, Dilek; Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; … - 2023

intervention significantly improved maternal mental health, especially among mothers of boys. It resulted in imprecisely estimated … productivity of maternal mental health in the first 12 months of life. It moved outcomes for depressed women closer to outcomes for …

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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments

Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys, and the relative chances of girls surviving...

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The right to health and the health effects of denials

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021

We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens … have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We … use administrative data on judicial claims for health as a proxy for unmet demand. We validate this using the register …

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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth: evidence from a Swedish IVF policy mandate

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022

health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …

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Urgent care centers, hospital performance and population health

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Nunes, Letícia; Rocha, Rudi - 2020

Hospitals are under increasing pressure as they bear a growing burden of chronic disease while also dealing with emergency cases that do not all require hospital care. Many countries have responded by introducing alternative facilities that provide 24/7 care for basic and medium-complexity...

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