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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone
Mocan, Naci H.; Cannonier, Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
increased educational attainment and that an increase in education has changed women's preferences. An increase in schooling …, triggered by the program, had an impact on women's attitudes towards matters that impact women's health and on attitudes … regarding violence against women. An increase in education has also reduced the number of desired children by women and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227910
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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure
Tekin, Erdal; Cesur, Resul; Ulker, Aydogan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Natural gas has emerged as an increasingly attractive source of energy since it is highly efficient, abundant, and cleaner than any other fossil fuel. In this paper, we examine the impact of widespread adoption of natural gas as a source of fuel on infant mortality in Turkey, using variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159879
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Mind the Gap! Consumer Perceptions and Choices of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans
Winter, Joachim; Heiss, Florian; McFadden, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Medicare Part D provides prescription drug coverage through Medicare approved plans offered by private insurance companies and HMOs. In this paper, we study the role of current prescription drug use and health risks, related expectations, and subjective factors in the demand for prescription...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720044
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Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves
Miller, Grant; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950660
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When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming
Kremer, Michael; Miguel, Edward Andrew; Ahuja, Amrita; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We discuss how evidence and theory can be combined to provide insight on the appropriate subsidy level for health products, focusing on the specific case of deworming. Although intestinal worm infections can be treated using safe, low-cost drugs, some have challenged the view that mass...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276440
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Stimulating Demand for AIDS Prevention: Lessons from the RESPECT Trial
Dow, William H.; Walque, Damien de; Medlin, Carol; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
HIV-prevention strategies have yielded only limited success so far in slowing down the AIDS epidemic. This paper examines novel intervention strategies that use incentives to discourage risky sexual behaviors. Widely-adopted conditional cash transfer programs that offer payments conditioning on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652792
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Education and Health: Insights from International Comparisons
Cutler, David M.; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
In this review we synthesize what is known about the relationship between education and health. A large number of studies from both rich and poor countries show that education is associated with better health. While previous work has thought of the effect of education separately for rich and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401256
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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821731
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Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries
Currie, Janet; Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal period, infancy, and early childhood. Much of this literature focuses on rich countries, but researchers are increasingly taking advantage of new sources of data and identification to study the long reach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821991
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The Impact of Education on Health and Health Behavior in a Middle-Income, Low-Education Country
Mocan, Naci H.; Cesur, Resul; Dursun, Bahadir - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
instrument for education, we find that for women ages 18-30, education has no impact on self-reported health, BMI, overweight …, obesity, or on the propensity or intensity of smoking. Education does not influence women’s daily consumption of fruits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103501