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children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by … aggregate shocks and trends in unobservables within countries, while a panel of children within mother is exploited to control …. The interaction (gradient) effects are, in general, most marked for shorter women suggesting that children are more likely …
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children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by … aggregate shocks and trends in unobservables within countries, while a panel of children within mother is exploited to control …. The interaction (gradient) effects are, in general, most marked for shorter women suggesting that children are more likely …
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impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …
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Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for more than 18 million births (more than 500,000...
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Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that their occurrence is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence challenging this premise. Using data on about 18 million births in 72 countries, we find that maternal...
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, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children … outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …
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, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children … market outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health …
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