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children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …
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offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …
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services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of … the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing … improvements in both maternal and infant health compared to the control rayons. Among the infant health outcomes, the MIHP impact …
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The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …, and greater use of preventive health inputs. Some benefits also diffused beyond the boundaries of the program villages …
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Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence … supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses … the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire distribution. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and …
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local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …
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This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …
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mother´s participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health …This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother´s working status when the …, children of working mothers have a lower probability of attending school. This, together with the result that only illiterate …
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the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …
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Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the mother pre- and during pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could...
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