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Does universalization of healthwork? : evidence from health systems restructuring and expansion in Brazil
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2019
We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of births. Using rich administrative data, we investigate...
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Contraceptive access creates positive selection in infant health
Flynn, James - 2024
This paper documents an important unintended consequence of expanding contraceptive access; namely that it creates positive selection in the health of the children being born. I use a family planning intervention which gave thousands of long-acting reversible contraceptives to reproductive-age...
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Can expanding contraceptive access reduce adverse infant health outcomes?
Flynn, James - 2024
This paper uses the implementation of a privately funded family planning program in Colorado to demonstrate that expanding access to long-acting reversible contraceptives to lower income women creates positive selection in the health of the children being born, reducing the rates of extremely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582281
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Air pollution and infant mortality : evidence from the expansion of natural gas infrastructure
Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - 2013
infant mortality in Turkey using variation across provinces and over time in the adoption of natural gas as a cleaner fuel … infant mortality in Turkey. In particular, a one-percentage point increase in the rate of subscriptions to natural gas … matter and 0.63 for sulfur dioxide. -- air pollution ; infant mortality ; environment ; natural gas ; coal ; Turkey …
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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey …
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The effect of hosting 3.4 million refugees on the health system in Turkey and infant, child, and elderly mortality among natives
Aygün, Aysun; Kirdar, Murat G.; Tuncay, Berna - 2020
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health … infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality - with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality. Our OLS results yield … refugees put on the health care services in Turkey, as well as the government's response, to understand our findings on …
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Birth spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India : dynamics, frailty and fecundity
Bhalotra, Sonia R. (contributor);  … - 2006
A dynamic panel data model of neonatal mortality and birth spacing is analyzed, accounting for causal effects of birth spacing on subsequent mortality and of mortality on the length of the next birth interval, while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity in mortality (frailty) and birth...
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Infant mortality and the health of survivors : Britain 1910 - 1950
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection effect and a negative scarring effect. Examining town-level panel data on the heights of school...
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Prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes
Averett, Susan; Fletcher, Erin K. - 2015
We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 survey are examined. Outcomes include macrosomia,...
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Saving lives at birth : the impact of home births on infant outcomes
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2012
Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where home births are widespread. To account for endogeneity in...
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