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Empowering youth: The impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador
Aguirre, Kamila; Carrión-Yaguana, Vanessa D. - 2023
This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically … examining its implementation in schools. The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and … education. Using a difference-in-differences model, the study finds that the provision of comprehensive sex education in schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477581
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Do bigger health budgets cushion pandemics? An empirical test of COVID-19 deaths across the world
Cooray, Arusha; Vadlamannati, Krishna Chaitanya; De … - 2020
How has government healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments in providing effective health. We argue that the effectiveness of spending in reducing COVID deaths is conditional on the existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424152
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Choices for spending government revenue: New African oil, gas, and mining economies
Witter, Sophie; Jakobsen, Maja - 2017
health and education by new oil and gas revenues, and what other uses of those revenues are likely to arise. The paper argues …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943753
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Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare
Mundle, Sudipto - 2018
This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943904
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Maternal mortality and women's political participation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; … - 2018
Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9-12 per cent decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also leads to an 8-11 per cent increase in skilled birth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943865
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Orphans and stunted growth: Investigating the potential of spatial network effects in service delivery for reducing stunting in orphans
Bridgman, Grace - 2020
Stunted growth in early life has serious implications for children and is a wellestablished constraint to productivity, life expectancy, and cognitive development. This paper evaluates the relative contributions of household resources and public service delivery in reducing the orphan-stunting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424141
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Impact of post-conflict development interventions on maternal healthcare utilization
Badiuzzaman, Muhammad; Murshed, Syed Mansoob - 2016
We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Our work varies from conventional impact evaluation studies because of the inclusion of two post-conflict psychosocial risks: the household's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532411
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Beyond access to basic services: Perspectives on the social determinants of health in Mozambique
Llop-Gironés, Alba; Jones, Sam - 2019
The social determinants of health have not been studied extensively in low-income contexts, where most studies focus on access to medical care. We undertake a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the social determinants of health in Mozambique for the 2002-14 period, covering 258,431...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146528
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A review of external assistance and aid effectiveness for maternal and child health: Challenges and opportunities
Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Aleem, Samia - 2013
This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these specific interventions has varied greatly over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333660
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What do we know about non-clinical interventions for preventable and treatable childhood diseases in developing countries?
Seguin, Maureen; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2013
of childhood diseases, along with training and education for medical workers, are effective policy instruments to tackle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333683