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Diminishing returns : nudging Covid-19 prevention among Colombian young adults
Blackman, Allen; Hoffmann, Bridget - 2021
Until a vaccine is widely available, face masks and other nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) will continue to be the frontline defense against Covid-19 in developing countries. But their effectiveness depends critically on compliance by young adults, who are most likely both to become...
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Does birth underregistration reduce childhood immunization? : evidence from the Dominican Republic
Corbacho, Ana; Brito, Sreve; Osorio Rivas, René - 2013
Birth registration is not only a fundamental human right, but also a requirement for obtaining additional documents, proving legal identity, and accessing a number of government benefits. Yet, little is known about the effects of birth under-registration on access to health care. Using data from...
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Sex, violence, and drugs among Latin American and Caribbean adolescents : do engaged parents make a difference?
Ruprah, Inder S.; Sierra, Ricardo - 2016
This paper uses data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey to investigate the prevalence of health risk behaviors, in particular substance use, risky sexual behavior, and violence among adolescents in 15 Latin American and Caribbean countries. Using logit regressions and...
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Breastfeeding and child development
Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2021
We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children’s development in the first five years of life,...
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Is results-based aid more effective than conventional aid? : evidence from the health sector in El Salvador
Bernal, Pedro; Celhay, Pablo; Martinez, Sebastian - 2018
Results-based aid (RBA) models link funds to outcomes, rather than paying for inputs. Despite their theoretical appeal and recent adoption by donors and multilateral development banks, there is limited empirical evidence supporting this form of aid for national governments. We estimate the...
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Violence and birth outcomes : evidence from homicides in Brazil
Koppensteiner, Martin; Manacorda, Marco - 2015
exposure to violence during the first trimester of pregnancy leads to a small but precisely estimated increase in the risk of …
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Are you (not) expecting? : the unforeseen benefits of job training on teenage pregnancy
Novella, Rafael; Ripani, Laura - 2015
Teenage pregnancy in the Dominican Republic represents a persistent development challenge. This paper uses data from a … impact on teenage pregnancy. We find that the program reduces the probability of teenage pregnancy by 8 percentage points … (about 20 percent), particularly among teenagers who are not already mothers. The program seems to affect teenage pregnancy …
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Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health : evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter
Conti, Gabriella; Poupakis, Stavros; Ekamper, Peter; … - 2021
This paper investigates impacts, mechanisms and selection effects of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945),...
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Growing in the womb : the effect of seismic activity on fetal growth
Álvarez, Rocío; Chirkova, Serafima; Romero, J. Gabriel - 2018
We study how prenatal maternal stress, caused by sustained seismic activity, affects birth outcomes in Chile during the period 2011-2015. A mother-fixed-effect model together with the spatiotemporal variation of earthquakes in Chile allow us to deal with identification issues that have obscured...
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Winning big but feeling no better? : the effect of lottery prizes on physical and mental health
Apouey, Benedicte; Clark, Andrew E. - 2009
We use British panel data to explore the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviours (drinking and smoking). Lottery winnings allow us to make causal statements regarding the effect of...
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