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The Indian enigma revisited
von Grafenstein, Liza; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022
undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the …, sibling size and maternal height, the coefficient associated with being an Indian girl is no longer statistically significant. …
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Entitled to Property: Inheritance Laws, Female Bargaining Power, and Child Health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non …
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Entitled to Property: How Breaking the Gender Barrier Improves Child Health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby …
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Educational Assortative Mating and Harsh Parenting in Sub-Saharan Africa
Pesando, Luca Maria; De Cao, Elisabetta; La Mattina, Giulia - 2023
Leveraging underused information on child discipline methods, this study explores the relationship between parental educational similarity and violent childrearing practices, testing a new potential pathway through which parental educational similarity may relate to child outcomes. The study...
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Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood: Evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2019
weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases …
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Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood: Evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022
weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases …
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Maternal cash for better child health? The impacts of India's IGMSY/PMMVY maternity benefit scheme
von Haaren, Paula; Klonner, Stefan - 2020
infant health-promoting activities, is India's largest conditional cash transfer program thus far. We approach IGMSY …, but that it will make only a small contribution to redressing India's dismal child-health record. …
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Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women's Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India
Anukriti, S; Herrera-Almanza, Catalina; Karra, Mahesh - 2022
networks and improve well-being. We examine family planning access for women in India, who tend to be socially isolated and for …
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The Effect of Antimalarial Campaigns on Child Mortality and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Wilde, Joshua; Apouey, Bénédicte; Coleman, Joseph; … - 2020
We examine the extent to which recent declines in child mortality and fertility in Sub- Saharan Africa can be attributed to insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs). Exploiting the rapid increase in ITNs since the mid-2000s, we employ a difference-in-differences estimation strategy to identify the...
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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production …
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