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Maternal depression, women's empowerment, and parental investment : evidence from a large randomized control trial
Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Biroli, Pietro; … - 2017
We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting decisions. We leverage experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial that provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770420
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Socioemotional skills in early childhood : evidence from a maternal psychosocial intervention
Sevim, Dilek; Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; … - 2023
intervention significantly improved maternal mental health, especially among mothers of boys. It resulted in imprecisely estimated … productivity of maternal mental health in the first 12 months of life. It moved outcomes for depressed women closer to outcomes for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013541895
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Trajectories of early childhood skill development and maternal mental health
Sevim, Dilek; Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322487
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Trajectories of early childhood skill development and maternal mental health
Sevim, Dilek; Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014323701
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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2010
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278543
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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries : the penalty of gender inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2010
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313343
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Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries : The Penalty of Gender Inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134987
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Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries: The Penalty of Gender Inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764588
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On the quantity and quality of girls : new evidence on abortion, fertility, and parental investments
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2016
The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543967
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On the quantity and quality of girls : fertility, parental investments and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 132 (2022) 641, pp. 1-36
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799234