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Early Life Circumstance and Mental Health in Ghana
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Fenske, James; Nyshadham, Anant - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014
producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we show that a one standard deviation rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734963
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Early Life Circumstance and Mental Health in Ghana
Fenske, James; Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we show that a one standard deviation rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159032
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Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health
Fenske, James; Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we find that a one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004309
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Poverty and postnatal depression: a systematic mapping of the evidence from low and lower middle income countries
Coast, Ernestina; Leone, Tiziana; Hirose, Atsumi; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This study systematically maps, assesses and aggregates research relating to postnatal depression (PND) and poverty in low and lower middle income countries (LLMICs). Our search of 12 databases yielded 2202 articles, of which 47 items from 17 countries were included in our mapping. We highlight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746111
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Crowding out of Solidarity? – Public Health Insurance versus Informal Transfer Networks in Ghana
Klohn, Florian; Strupat, Christoph - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013
This paper delivers empirical evidence on how informal transfers are affected by a formal and country-wide health insurance scheme. Using the fifth wave of the Ghanaian Living Standard Household Survey, we investigate the extent to which the exogenous implementation of the National Health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860296
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The long-term cognitive consequences of early childhood malnutrition: The case of famine in Ghana
Ampaabeng, Samuel K.; Tan, Chih Ming - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 6, pp. 1013-1027
We examine the role of early childhood health in human capital accumulation. Using a unique data set from Ghana with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729994
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The Long-Term Cognitive Consequences of Early Childhood Malnutrition: The Case of Famine in Ghana
Ampaabeng, Samuel K.; Tang, Chih Ming - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2012
We examine the role of early childhood health in human capital accumulation. Using a unique data set from Ghana with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570280
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Wealthiest Is Not Always Healthiest: What Explains Differences in Child Mortality in West Africa?
Ickowitz, Amy - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Ghana has the lowest under-five mortality rate in West Africa. Understanding why Ghana’s child mortality rate is lower … health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … examine relative child mortality risk between Ghana and each of its three immediate neighbors -- Burkina Faso, Côte d …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108728
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Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves
Miller, Grant; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950660
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"Adult Antiretroviral Therapy and Child Health: Evidence from Scale-up in Zambia"
LUCAS, ADRIENNE M.; WILSON, NICHOLAS L. - Department of Economics, Lerner College of Business and … - 2013
One in five Zambian children lives with an HIV/AIDS-infected adult. We estimate the effect that the availability of adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) has on the health of such children. Using a triple difference specification, we find that adult access to ART resulted in increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010815446