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Access to the emergency contraceptive pill improves women's health : evidence from Chile

Clarke, Damian; Salinas Ulloa, Viviana - 2020

We examine the sharp expansion in availability of the emergency contraceptive pill in Chile following legalized access through municipal public health-care centres. Combining a number of administrative datasets on health outcomes and pharmaceutical use, and using difference-in-difference and...

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The demand for season of birth

Clarke, Damian; Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2016

Turk survey. The prevalence of quarters 2 and 3 is significantly related to mother's age, education, and smoking status … with working in "education, training, and library" occupations. Remarkably, this relationship between season and weather … disappears for mothers in "education, training, and library" occupations, revealing that season of birth is a matter of choice …

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Twin birth and maternal condition

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018

Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for 17 million births in 72 countries, we...

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Growing together : assessing equity and efficiency in an early-life health program in Chile

Clarke, Damian; Cortés Méndez, Gustavo; Vergara … - 2018

We study the mechanism of action of an early-life social safety net program, and quantify its impact on child health outcomes at birth. We consider both the equity and efficiency implications of program impacts, and provide a metric to compare various such programs around the world. In...

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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is...

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Abortion laws and women's health

Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna - 2018

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on...

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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

IVF allows women to delay birth and pursue careers, but IVF massively increases the risk of twin birth. There is limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate implemented in Sweden in 2003,...

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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019

In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...

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The twin instrument

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016

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Does increasing public spending in health improve health? : lessons from a constitutional reform in Brazil

Szklo, Michel; Clarke, Damian; Rocha, Rudi - 2024

We examine the link between public spending in health and health outcomes by leveraging differential exposure to a health spending reform prompted by Brazil's 29th Constitutional Amendment, which mandated municipalities to spend at least 15% of their budget on health. We map dynamic effects on...

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