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The intergenerational health effects of child marriage bans
Le Duc Dung; Molina, Teresa; Ibuka, Yōko; Gotō, Rei - 2024
Using data from 18 countries, we investigate the effects of child marriage bans on infant and under-5 mortality. We use variation in mothers' exposure to the ban across cohorts within each country and regional variation in "treatment intensity," calculated based on child marriage prevalence and...
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Terrorism and human capital at birth : bomb casualties and birth outcomes in Spain
Quintana-Domeque, Climent; Ródenas-Serrano, Pedro - 2014
We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining information on the number of bomb casualties from The Victims of ETA Dataset with the individual birth records from the national registry of live births in Spain, elaborated by the...
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Tariffs, social status, and gender in India
Anukriti, S.; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014
higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the … to sons seem to have caused families to change the sex-composition of and health investments in their children. …
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The Intra-Household Economics of Polygyny : Fertility and Child Mortality in Rural Mali
Kazianga, Harounan; Klonner, Stefan - 2007
Building on anthropological evidence, we develop a model of intra-household decision making on fertility and child …
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India's Missing Girls : Biology, Customs, and Economic Development
Gupta, Bishnupriya - 2010
We review the evidence on the sex ratio among children below the age of six. International evidence shows that the sex …
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Excess female mortality in Africa
Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - 2017
Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in parts of the developing world. Estimates suggest that more than 200 million women are demographically 'missing' worldwide. To explain the global 'missing women' phenomenon, research has mainly focused on excess female...
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The empowerment of women, fertility, and child mortality: Towards a theoretical analysis
Eswaran, Mukesh - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 3, pp. 433-454
decisions of a couple regarding fertility and allocation of resources for the healthcare of their children are made within a …This paper examines one avenue through which female autonomy impinges on fertility and child mortality in developing … countries. A simple model is set out in which couples are motivated to have children for old age security purposes. The …
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Where There is a Will : Fertility Behavior and Sex Bias in Large Families
Jain, Tarun - 2013
This paper argues that the social institutions of lineage maintenance, patrilocality and joint families have a significant role in explaining sex differences in survival and health outcomes in rural India, even when parents do not treat boys and girls differently. Tests using panel data from...
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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022
larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …
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The economics of grief
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2012
cause of death with parents' labor market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …
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