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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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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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family members. Drawing on theoretical models of collective decision-making, we use extremely rich data from Indonesia to …
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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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Malaria ranks among the foremost health issues facing tropical countries. In this paper, we explore the determinants of cross-country differences in malaria morbidity, and examine the linkage between malaria and economic growth. Using a classification rule analysis, we confirm the dominant role...
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Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-Malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass distribution of insecticide...
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It is often argued that cost-sharing -- charging a subsidized, positive price -- or a health product is necessary to avoid wasting resources on those who will not use or do not need the product. We explore this argument through a field experiment in Kenya, in which we randomized the price at...
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This paper estimates the number of people at risk of contracting malaria in Africa using GIS methods and the disease's epidemiologic characteristics. It then estimates yearly costs of covering the population at risk with the package of interventions (differing by level of malaria endemicity and...
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