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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020
The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender...
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The captain of the men of death and his shadow: Long-run impacts of early life pneumonia exposure
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - 2011
after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282476
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War and stature: Growing up during the Nigerian civil war
Akresh, Richard; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Leone, Marinella; … - 2011
health capital. Individuals exposed to the war at all ages between birth and adolescence exhibit reduced adult stature and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282297
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976885
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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2010
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278543
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Poverty and survival
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278815
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Poverty and Survival
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765232
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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty
Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a fair-trade premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269504
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Mind the gap: Net incomes of minimum wage workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive; Marchal, Sarah; Nolan, Brian - 2012
or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country … poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … is shown that only for single persons and only in a number of countries, net income packages at minimum wage level reach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282582
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Social protection, poverty and the post-2015 agenda
Fiszbein, Ariel; Kanbur, Ravi; Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765626