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Maternal investments in children : the role of expected effort and returns
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Delavande, Adeline; Gilabert, … - 2020
We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182697
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Maternal investments in children: The role of expected effort and returns
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Delavande, Adeline; Gilabert, … - 2020
We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388805
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Sibling-linked data in the demographic and health surveys
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784524
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892847
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894898
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Early childhood investments in human capital : parental resources and preferences
Bhalotra, Sonia R. (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387992
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Parent altruism, cash transfers and child poverty
Bhalotra, Sonia R. (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387994
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Infant health and longevity : evidence from a historical trial in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2015
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515874
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - In: The review of economics and statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 660-672
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763670
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Cognitive development and infectious disease : gender differences in investments and outcomes
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - 2013
We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in late childhood. We estimate that a one standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228782