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, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …
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We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …
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differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls …
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line with this, increases in outpatient procedures, prenatal care visits, health-education activities and home visits by …We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal … driving mechanisms. We find sharp increases in coverage of primary health facilities with GPs and outreach workers and, in …
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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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overweight, earlier age at first birth, and lower educational attainment. Exposure to a primary education program mitigates … impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not … fathers) has adverse impacts on child growth, survival, and education. Impacts vary with age of exposure. For mother and child …
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births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non- IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor … 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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births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non-IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor market … 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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and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive, socio-emotional and health domains, and we show that this contributes …
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In this paper we examine the impact of a tailored health warning on health outcomes. We exploit the design of a …
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