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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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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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Youth risk-taking behavior in Brazil : drug use and teenage pregnancies

Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor); Verner, Dorte (contributor) - 2007

aim of this paper is to study interactions among different types of risk-taking behavior by youth, namely drug use and …

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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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Early impacts of college aid

Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P.; … - 2015

We analyze the impact of an expansion in government-guaranteed credit for higher education in Chile on a sample of elementary and high school students. Using students who had an alternative source of funding as a control group, and administrative records before and after the reform, we present...

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Does in utero exposure to illness matter? : the 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment

Lin, Ming-Jeng; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014

This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...

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Teenage pregnancies and births in Germany : patterns and developments

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2014

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the...

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