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-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …
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Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …
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This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …
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's effects on child mortality and educational attainment in India. Results show that exposure to the program reduced infant …. The negative effect at low levels of schooling may be due to lower average health among marginal surviving children or a … greater propensity to complete secondary school on the other hand may be due to improved health among children who are farther …
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, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …
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Under the tender years doctrine in effect until the 1970's, custody was virtually always awarded to the mother upon divorce. Gender-neutral custody laws introduced beginning in the 1970's provided married fathers, in principle, equal rights to custody. Subsequent marriage-neutral laws extended...
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We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap in breastfeeding. We find that FPP increased the daughter-son breastfeeding gap in favor of sons in rural areas. Mean intensity of the FPP predicts the gender gap to be 35%...
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, program spillovers, and worker health. To do so, we analyze workers after a workplace injury that experience differential … health outcomes. Our findings imply that imposing stricter DI screening has large fiscal benefits but does not yield any … detectable health costs, on the margin. …
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regards to age, sex and ethnicity. We find that women's mental health is worse than men's along the four metrics we collected …
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Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
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