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Globalization and Child Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy
Welander, Anna; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
Good health is crucial for human and economic development. In particular poor health in childhood seems to be of utmost concern since it causes irreversible damage and have implications later in life. Recent research suggests globalization is a strong force affecting adult and child health...
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Violence and birth outcomes: Evidence from homicides in Brazil
Foureaux Koppensteiner, Martin; Manacorda, Marco - 2015
This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence - measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that exposure to violence during the first trimester of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380987
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Fertility transitions in developing countries: Convergence, timing, and causes
Papagni, Erasmo - 2019
This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950-2015 and investigates the determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. We find evidence of convergence in three groups of countries, and distinguish the transitioning countries from those not transitioning....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146447
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Impact of development aid on infant mortality: Micro-level evidence from Côte d'Ivoire
Wayoro, Didier; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2019
The empirical literature has failed to reach consensus on the impact of aid on development outcomes based on aggregate cross-country analysis. This study follows the current trend in the literature on the effectiveness of aid to examine the impact of local-level aid on health outcomes. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059915
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National aggregates and individual disaffiliation: An international study
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2009
a certain religion and at some stage of their lives left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as 'no … religion'. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific, personal attributes and marriage variables) was employed to … test for determinants of this decision. It was found that the tendency of individuals to leave their religion is strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335971
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Social divisions in school participation and attainment in India: 1983 - 2004
Niaz Asadullah, M.; Kambhampati, Uma; López Bóo, Florencia - 2009
numerous socioeconomic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that …This study documents the size and nature of 'boy-girl' and 'Hindu-Muslim' gaps in children's school participation and … attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278307
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Survival of the weakest? Culling evidence from the 1918 flu pandemic
Floris, Joël; Kaiser, Laurent; Mayr, Harald; Staub, Kaspar - 2019
When a negative shock affcts a cohort in utero, two things may happen: first, the population suffers detrimental consequences in later life; and second, some will die as a consequence of the shock, either in utero or early in life. The latter effect, often referred to as culling, may induce a bias...
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Education effects on days hospitalized and days out of work by gender: Evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil İbrahim - 2017
The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that investigate the nature of causality between these variables became available only recently and provide evidence mostly from developed countries. We add to this literature by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060203
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Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health: Analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic indices
van den Berg, Gerard J.; von Hinke Kessler Scholder, … - 2023
Maternal sugar consumption in utero may have a variety of effects on offspring. We exploit the abolishment of the rationing of sweet confectionery in the UK on April 24, 1949, and its subsequent reintroduction some months later, in an era of otherwise uninterrupted rationing of confectionery...
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The curse of bad geography: Stagnant water, diseases, and children's human capital
Berggreen, Steve; Mattisson, Linn - 2023
Waterborne diseases lead to over 6 billion diarrheal episodes per year, with most of the burden on children in low-income countries. We employ hydrological engineering principles to construct a novel measure of stagnant water, crucial to the spread of these diseases. Using a...
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