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Multiple Births, Birth Quality and Maternal Labor Supply : Analysis of Ivf Reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2019
, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864883
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Life expectancy and mother-baby interventions : evidence from a historical trial
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2016
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/10011483902
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Life expectancy and mother-baby interventions : evidence from a historical trial
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2014
and children. We study a program trialed 1931-33 in seven Swedish medical districts, assembling individual data from … was systematically larger among children born out of wedlock, who also exhibit higher baseline rates of infant mortality … Gesundheitsprogramms für Kinder auf deren Sterblichkeit und Überlebenswahrscheinlichkeit bis zu den Lebensaltern 5, 40 und 75. Diese …
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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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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/10012193696
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Maternal investments in children : the role of expected effort and returns
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Delavande, Adeline; Font-Gilabert, … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013347434
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Women's Careers and Family Formation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Walther, Selma - 2023
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/10014264782
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021924
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
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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