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We study the formation of social and emotional skills in the first three years of life, and investigate the impact of a cluster-randomized peer-led psychosocial intervention targeting perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. The intervention significantly improved maternal mental health,...
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a child influences the risk of death of the succeeding child in the family. Drawing language from the literature on the … extent of state dependence in India, distinguishing this from family-level risk factors common to siblings. It offers a …
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effect of a child death on the risk of death of the subsequent child in the same family (a scarring effect), which is … identified after controlling for observed and unobserved heterogeneity at the family level. The two states in which evidence of …
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a child influences the risk of death of the succeeding child in the family. Drawing language from the literature on the … extent of state dependence in India, distinguishing this from family-level risk factors common to siblings. It offers a …
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We study the formation of social and emotional skills in the first three years of life, and investigate the impact of a cluster-randomized peer-led psychosocial intervention targeting perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. The intervention significantly improved maternal mental health,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013541895
fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …
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Bengal, and find that it increased child survival and reduced fertility. However, we also find that it intensified son … preference in families without a first-born son to inherit the land title. These families exhibit no reduction in fertility, an …
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