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Secondary schools and teenage childbearing : evidence from the school expansion in Brazilian municipalities
Koppensteiner, Martin; Matheson, Jesse - 2020
This article investigates the effect increasing secondary education opportunities has on teenage fertility in Brazil. Using a novel dataset to exploit variation from a 57 increase in secondary schools across 4,884 Brazilian municipalities between 1997 and 2009, the analysis shows an important...
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Son preference, fertility and family structure : evidence from reproductive behavior among Nigerian women
Milazzo, Annamaria - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357889
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Is the baby to blame? : an inquiry into the consequences of early childbearing
Azevedo, Joao Pedro; López-Calva, Luis F.; Perova, … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009564280
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The use of financial incentives to prevent undesirable behaviors
De Walque, Damien - 2018
behaviors, in domains as varied as HIV/AIDS, drugs, alcohol, smoking, obesity, or early marriage prevention. This paper presents …
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“United we stand divided we fall” : maternal social participation and children’s nutritional status in Peru
Favara, Marta - 2012
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Why are adult women missing? : son preference and maternal survival in India
Milazzo, Annamaria - 2014
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Maternal and child health inequalities in Ethiopia
Ambel, Alemayehu; Andrews, Colin; Bakilana, Anne; … - 2015
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The effects of in-kind demand-side conditional transfers for improving uptake of maternal and child health services in Rwanda
Shapira, Gil; Kalisa, Ina; Condo, Jeanine; Humuza, James; … - 2017
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Mama knows (and does) best : maternal schooling opportunities and child development in Indonesia
Hasan, Amer; Nakajima, Nozomi; Rangel, Marcos A. - 2020
-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the … children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … effects on children. The effects are particularly salient at the bottom of the distributions of outcomes. Drawing on insights …
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The role of information and cash transfers on early childhood development : evidence from Nepal
Levere, Michael; Acharya, Gayatri; Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2016
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