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health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our … affects her children's health, but is also intrinsically linked to her spouse's labor market status and earnings. Paternal … negative effects on their children are compounded. Additionally, the consequences of poor parental health are enduring. Longer …
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current adult outcomes from the 2000 wave of the Indonesia Family Life Survey. Higher early-life rainfall has large positive …
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family members. Drawing on theoretical models of collective decision-making, we use extremely rich data from Indonesia to …
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investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care and early childhood health interventions and … impacts of Indonesia's cash transfer program (PKH) six years after the program launched, using data from about 14 …,000 households in 360 sub-districts across Indonesia, taking advantage of the fact that treatment and control locations remained …
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Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely … data collected in Aceh, Indonesia, before and after the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami are used to identify the impact … of parental deaths on the well-being of children who were age 9 through 17 years old at the time of the tsunami …
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This paper reports an experiment in over 3,000 Indonesian villages designed to test the role of performance incentives in improving the efficacy of aid programs. Villages in a randomly-chosen one-third of subdistricts received a block grant to improve 12 maternal and child health and education...
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Both under- and over-treatment of communicable diseases are public bads. But efforts to decrease one run the risk of increasing the other. Using rich experimental data on household treatment-seeking behavior in Kenya, we study the implications of this tradeoff for subsidizing life-saving...
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Regular use of effective health-products such as insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITN) by a household benefits its neighbors by (a) reducing chances of infection and (b) raising awareness about product-effectiveness, thereby increasing product-use. Due to their potential social benefits and...
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The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) caused a population shift in the United States in the 1930s. Evaluating the effects of the AAA on the incidence of malaria can therefore offer important lessons regarding the broader consequences of demographic changes. Using a quasi-first difference model...
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We examine the effect of malaria on economic development in Africa over the very long run. Using data on the prevalence of the mutation that causes sickle cell disease we measure the impact of malaria on mortality in Africa prior to the period in which formal data were collected. Our estimate is...
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