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Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010

A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data...

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Us Presidential Party Switches are Mirrored in Global Maternal Mortality

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022

fifth of the average worldwide decline in maternal mortality achieved since 1990 …

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Does Universalization of Healthwork? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Expansion in Brazil

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2019

and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of …

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The Twin Instrument : Fertility and Human Capital Investment

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 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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Maternal mortality and women's political participation

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; … - 2020

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Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2017

Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline …

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The Trade-Off between Fertility and Education : Evidence from Before the Demographic Transition

Becker, Sascha O. - 2009

The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. We present first evidence that such a trade-off indeed existed before the demographic transition, exploiting a unique...

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Birth Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality in India : Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010

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 spacing (fecundity). The model is estimated using micro data on almost 30 …

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Multiple Births, Birth Quality and Maternal Labor Supply : Analysis of Ivf Reform in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 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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Twin Birth and Maternal Condition

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 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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