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Surviving the genocide : the impact of the Rwandan genocide on child mortality

Ciani, Federico; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013

is measured exploiting the differential effects of timing of birth and genocide intensity at the household and geographic …

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Business in genocide : understanding and avoiding complicity

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2016

engaged in genocide to a more analytical exploration of why businesses have made the choices they did in the process of their … engagement with genocide. This is also necessary to advance the debate on how to hold businesses accountable for gross human …

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The effects of conflict on fertility : evidence from the genocide in Rwanda

Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; … - 2019

This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the … hazard of having a child in the early post-genocide period and on the total number of post-genocide births up to 15 years …-level sex ratio. Results indicate that the genocide had heterogeneous effects on fertility, depending on the type of violence …

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The impact of adolescent motherhood on education in Chile

Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana I. - 2014

We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990-2009 period. We control for selection bias and household...

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The effect of lone motherhood on the smoking behaviour of young adults

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen; Siedler, Thomas - 2009

We provide evidence that living with an unmarried mother during childhood raises smoking propensities for young adults in Germany. -- Smoking ; lone parent ; childhood family structure ; divorce ; unobserved heterogeneity

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Adolescent motherhood and secondary schooling in Chile

Kruger, Diana I.; Berthelon, Matias; Navia, Rodrigo - 2009

We analyze the determinants of adolescent motherhood and its subsequent effect on high school attendance and completion in Chile. Using eight rounds of household surveys, we find that adolescents who were born to teen mothers, those that live in poor households and in single-mother families, are...

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Delaying the bell : the effects of longer school days on adolescent motherhood in Chile

Kruger, Diana I.; Berthelon, Matias E. - 2009

We analyze the effect of a Chilean school reform that lengthened the school day from half to full-day shifts on the likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours spent in school, the reform curtails opportunities to engage in risky sexual behaviors. Using...

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Early childbirth, health inputs and child mortality : recent evidence from Bangladesh

Maitra, Pushkar (contributor); Pal, Sarmistha (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where adolescent childbearing is of particular concern. We argue that effective use of specific health inputs could however significantly lower child mortality rates even among adolescent...

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Is it necessary to walk the talk? : the effects of maternal experiences and communication on the sexual behavior of female adolescents

Averett, Susan; Estelle, Sarah M. - 2012

Numerous social marketing campaigns exhort parents to talk to their children about sexual abstinence and pregnancy/STD prevention while child-development experts advise parents to initiate discussions about reproductive health and related values at an early age. The efficacy of these marketing...

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The impact of early childbearing on schooling and cognitive skills among young women in Madagascar

Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2015

Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women's human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young...

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