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Multiple Births, Birth Quality and Maternal Labor Supply: Analysis of IVF Reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than … market outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141127
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply: Analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than … outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers, it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145514
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Health and Labor Market Impacts of Twin Birth: Evidence from a Swedish IVF Policy Mandate
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022
IVF allows women to delay birth and pursue careers, but IVF massively increases the risk of twin birth. There is limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate implemented in Sweden in 2003,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882566
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Maternal investments in children: The role of expected effort and returns
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Delavande, Adeline; Gilabert, … - 2020
that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388805
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Urgent Care Centers, Hospital Performance and Population Health
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Nunes, Letícia; Rocha, Rudi - 2020
Hospitals are under increasing pressure as they bear a growing burden of chronic disease while also dealing with emergency cases that do not all require hospital care. Many countries have responded by introducing alternative facilities that provide 24/7 care for basic and medium-complexity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497893
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The Right to Health and the Health Effects of Denials
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernandez Sierra, Manuel - 2021
We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We use administrative data on judicial claims for health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658264
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Shadows of the Captain of the Men of Death : Early Life Health Interventions, Human Capital Investments, and Institutions
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - 2015
We leverage introduction of the first antibiotic therapies in 1937 to examine impacts of pneumonia in infancy on adult education, employment, disability, income and income mobility, and identify large impacts on each. We then examine how racial segregation in the pre-Civil Rights Era moderated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176806
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Analysis of Twins
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2022
The occurrence of twin births has been widely used as a natural experiment. With a focus upon the use of twin births for identification of causal effects in economics, this chapter provides a critical review of methods and results.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426458
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Women's Careers and Family Formation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Walther, Selma - 2022
This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal identification, and provides an overview of the evidence of causal effects in both directions. We highlight a few themes that we regard as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470402
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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes: Evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Cassan, Guilhem; … - 2013
. We find no evidence of religious favoritism: Muslim children do not benefit more from Muslim political representation … than children from other religious groups. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319502