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Adjusting for differential misclassification in multilevel models: the relationship between child exposure to smoke and cognitive development
Ferrão, Maria; Goldstein, Harvey - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 48 (2014) 1, pp. 251-258
self-reported behaviour of pregnant women suggest that there may be differential misclassification related to smoking and …
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Economics and Ethics of Results-Based Financing for Family Planning: Evidence and Policy Implications
Chowdury, Sadia; Vergeer, Petra; Schmidt, Harald; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
This paper was developed for World Bank task team leaders (TTLs) and teams designing results-based financing (RBF) programs in family planning (FP). It explores the rationale for introducing such incentives based on insights from classical and behavioral economics, to respond to supply- and...
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Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Early Child Outcomes
Tominey, Emma - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of … mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight … from smoking is explained by unobservable traits of the mother. Smoking tends to reduce birth weight by 1.7%, but has no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670516
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Cigarette Taxation and Pregnancy: Policy Based Estimates of the Price Elasticity of Smoking During Pregnancy
Simon, David Eliot - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2014
reviews the literature on the tax and price responsiveness of pregnant women to smoking during pregnancy. I first discuss the … continue to review overall trends in the tax responsiveness of smoking during pregnancy as well as results by subgroups. Next …, I discuss evidence on how facing a tax during pregnancy might uniquely effect women’s decision to smoke. I conclude with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010900541
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Maternal smoking during pregnancy and early child outcomes
Tominey, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We estimate the harm from smoking during pregnancy upon child birth outcomes, using a rich dataset on a cohort of … mothers and their births. We exploit a fixed effects approach to disentangle the correlation between smoking and birth weight … from smoking is explained by unobservable traits of the mother. Smoking tends to reduce birth weight by 1.7%, but has no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745418
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The Effect of Calorie Labels on Caloric Intakeand Restaurant Revenue: Evidence from Two Full-Service Restaurants
Ellison, Brenna; Lusk, Jayson L.; Davis, David - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 46 (2014) 02
Field experiment data were used to study the effect of numeric calorie labels in two fullservice restaurants. Ultimately, both field experiments, despite using different experimental designs, reached the same conclusion: the numeric calorie label had no significant effect on total caloric...
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How have agricultural policies influenced caloric consumption in the United States?
Rickard, Bradley J.; Okrent, Abigail M.; Alston, Julian M. - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2011
Many commentators have speculated that agricultural policies have contributed to increased obesity rates in the United States, yet such claims are often made without any analysis of the complex links between real-world farm commodity support programs, prices and consumption of foods, and caloric...
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Patterns in foodgrain consumption and calorie intake
Berhane, Guush; Mcbride, Linden; Hirfrfot, Kibrom Tafere; … - In: Food and agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and policy …
The quality, quantity, and composition of food consumption are major determinants of the nutritional well-being of individuals, which has, in turn, important implications for individual and household-level health, productivity, and income. An analysis of food consumption patterns is essential to...
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Food security in Uganda: a dilemma to achieving the millennium development goal
Ssewanyana, Sarah N.; Kasirye, Ibrahim - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2010
The status of food security in Uganda is worrying. The share of Ugandans suffering from food insecurity measured in terms of caloric intake is alarmingly high with low rates of income poverty. Based on the 2005/06 Uganda National Household Survey data, the study provides insights into access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277083
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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status: Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two...
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