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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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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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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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Persecution, pogroms and genocide : a conceptual framework and new evidence

Becker, Sascha O.; Mukand, Sharun W.; Yotzov, Ivan - 2022

Persecution, pogroms, and genocide have plagued humanity for centuries, costing millions of lives and haunting … causes and consequences of persecution, pogroms, and genocide. Finally, we discuss gaps in the literature and take several …

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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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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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Too young to leave the nest? : the effects of school starting age

Black, Sandra E. (contributor); … - 2008

Does it matter when a child starts school? While the popular press seems to suggest it does, there is limited evidence of a long-run effect of school starting age on student outcomes. This paper uses data on the population of Norway to examine the role of school starting age on longer-run...

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Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter

Conti, Gabriella; Poupakis, Stavros; Ekamper, Peter; … - 2021

This paper investigates impacts, mechanisms and selection effects of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945), pushing...

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School health programs: education, health, and welfare dependency of young adults

Abrahamsen, Signe A.; Ginja, Rita; Riise Kolstad, Julie - 2021

This paper provides new evidence that preventive health care services delivered at schools and provided at a relatively low cost have positive and lasting impacts. We use variation from a 1999-reform in Norway that induced substantial differences in the availability of health professionals...

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Grandparents, moms, or dads? why children of teen mothers do worse in life

Aizer, Anna; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020

Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these effects to selection rather than a causal effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still...

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