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Improving children health and cognition : evidence from school-based nutrition intervention in India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018
We present experimental evidence on the impact of delivering double-fortified salt (DFS), salt fortified with iron and iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "mid-day meal" on anemia, cognition, and math and reading scores of primary school children. We conducted a field...
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Education and COVID-19 excess mortality
Bello, Piera; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2021 - this version: October 5th 2021
We study the role of education during the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy. We compare the trends of mortality rates between … controlling for many confounders. We find that education played a protective role, significantly reducing mortality rates, during … 2020). We tentatively interpret this finding as the outcome of the interplay between education and public health …
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Cultural norms and women's health : implications of the practice of menstrual restrictions in Nepal
Kumar, Rahul; Maity, Bipasha - 2021
We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women's subjective well-being. Similar restrictions, also practised around the time of childbirth, are based on the assumption that women are ritually impure during these phases of...
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Social identity and depression among the elderly : evidence from India
Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2024
The paper examines the prevalence of depression and clinical depression among the elderly in India across groups with distinct social identities, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. Using nationally representative data, the study reveals no- table...
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Economic geography of contagion : a study on Covid-19 outbreak in India
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban - 2022
We propose a regional inequality-based mechanism to explain the heterogeneity in the spread of Covid-19 and test it using data from India. We argue that an area characterized by coreperiphery economic structure creates regional inequality in which the periphery remains dependent on the core for...
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The power of Lakshmi : monetary incentives for raising a girl
Biswas, Nabaneeta; Cornwell, Christopher Mark; … - 2021
discontinued. Post-birth outcomes like immunization and education also improved. …
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A literature review of the economics of COVID-19
Brodeur, Abel; Gray, David M.; Islam, Anik; Bhuiyan, … - 2020 - This version: July 5, 2020
The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and governmental responses, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...
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COVID-19, stay-at-home orders and employment : evidence from CPS data
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Brodeur, Abel; Wright, Taylor - 2020
In this paper, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 and evaluate the impacts of stay-at-home orders on employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force...
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Short-term labour market effects of COVID-19 and the associated national lockdown in Australia : evidence from Longitudinal Labour Force Survey
Guven, Cahit; Sotirakopoulos, Panagiotis; Ulker, Aydogan - 2020
terms of heterogeneity of these effects, our analysis shows that those with up to high-school education experienced larger …
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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2019
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...
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