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Cognitive Development and Infectious Disease : Gender Differences in Investments and Outcomes
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2013
differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071287
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Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums : An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data
Nolan, Laura - 2017
In India, 52–98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960250
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Long-Term Consequences of Access to Well-Child Visits
Bütikofer, Aline - 2016
nutrition. Our results indicate that access to mother and child health care centers had a positive effect on education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002459
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Water Scarcity and Birth Outcomes in the Brazilian Semiarid
Rocha, Rudi - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089973
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Economic Activity and the Spread of Viral Diseases : Evidence from High Frequency Data
Adda, Jerome - 2015
Viruses are a major threat to human health, and - given that they spread through social interactions - represent a costly externality. This paper addresses three main issues: i) what are the unintended consequences of economic activity on the spread of infections? ii) how efficient are measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015027
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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases : Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea
Bloom, David E. - 2017
We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950906
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An Ounce of Prevention for a Pound of Cure : Efficiency of Community-Based Healthcare
Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, Pablo; … - 2023
We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle-income countries for primary healthcare delivery. We exploit the rollout of a nation-wide expansion of coverage to this model in El Salvador. Using a panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345561
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Fighting Infectious Disease : Evidence from Sweden 1870-1940
Lazuka, Volha - 2015
Fighting infectious disease in the past, much like today, focused on isolating the disease and thereby stopping its spread. New insights into the modes of transmission and the causal agents in the mid-nineteenth century, together with fear of new epidemic outbreaks, motivated public investments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016181
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Education, Information, and COVID-19 Excess Mortality
Bello, Piera; Rocco, Lorenzo - 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 against the pandemic, significantly reducing … October and December 2020). We interpret this finding as the outcome of the interplay between education and the quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225543
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Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006
Liu, Hong - 2012
This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural children in China as well as how such disparities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106651