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Place and Child Health : The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries
Hathi, Payal - 2017
A long literature in demography debates the importance of place for health. This paper assesses whether the importance … sanitation an important mechanism by which population density in?uences health outcomes? The paper uses newly assembled data sets …, international child-level data set of 172 Demographic and Health Surveys, matched to census population density data for 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972442
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Place and Child Health : The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries
Hathi, Payal - 2014
A long literature in demography debates the importance of place for health. This paper assesses whether the importance … sanitation an important mechanism by which population density in?uences health outcomes? The paper uses newly assembled data sets …, international child-level data set of 172 Demographic and Health Surveys, matched to census population density data for 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396405
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Birth order, fertility, and child height in India and Africa
Spears, Dean; Coffey, Diane; Behrman, Jere R. - 2019
The poor state of child health in India has generated a number of puzzles that have received attention in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001397
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Sanitation and religion in South Asia : what accounts for differences across countries?
Vyas, Sangita; Spears, Dean - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 54 (2018) 11, pp. 2119-2135
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170806
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Place and Child Health : The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries
Coffey, Diane; Haque, Sabrina; Hathi, Payal; Pant, Lovey; … - 2014
A long literature in demography debates the importance of place for health. This paper assesses whether the importance … sanitation an important mechanism by which population density in?uences health outcomes? The paper uses newly assembled data sets …, international child-level data set of 172 Demographic and Health Surveys, matched to census population density data for 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012572106
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Endogenous inclusion in the demographic and health survey anthropometric sample : implications for studying height within households
Spears, Dean; Coffey, Diane; Behrman, Jere R. - In: Journal of development economics 155 (2022), pp. 1-10
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369486
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Decision costs and price sensitivity : field experimental evidence from India
Spears, Dean - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 97 (2014), pp. 169-184
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Decision costs and price sensitivity: Field experimental evidence from India
Spears, Dean - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 97 (2014) C, pp. 169-184
Poor people often exhibit puzzlingly high sensitivity to low prices of important consumer health goods. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737916
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Neighborhood Sanitation and Infant Mortality
Geruso, Michael; Spears, Dean - 2017
In this paper, we shed new light on a long-standing puzzle: In India, Muslim children are substantially more likely than Hindu children to survive to their first birthday, even though Indian Muslims have lower wealth, consumption, educational attainment, and access to state services. Contrary to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014135737
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Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
Geruso, Michael - 2018
We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the absence of vital registration systems in many poor countries by extracting birth histories from household surveys. Studying 53 developing countries that span five continents, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912766