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Stochastic Dominance and Demographic Policy Evaluation: A Critique
Cordoba, Juan Carlos; Liu, Xiying - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2013
Stochastic dominance (SD) is commonly used to rank income distribution and assesssocial policies. The literature argues that SD is a robust criterion for policy evaluationbecause it requires minimal knowledge of the social welfare function. We argue that,on the contrary, SD is not a robust...
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Mergers and birth outcomes : evidence from maternity ward closures
Avdic, Daniel; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2018
Evidence suggests that hospital mergers can reduce costs but less is known about their effects on patient outcomes. We study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a...
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HIV/AIDS and Fertility.
Fortson, Jane G. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2009
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Money-back guarantees and service quality : the marketing of in vitro fertilization services
Yu, Shan; Ghosh, Mrinal K.; Viswanathan, Madhu - In: Journal of marketing research 59 (2022) 3, pp. 659-673
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Quality of routine essential care during childbirth : clinical observations of uncomplicated births in Uttar Pradesh, India
Sharma, Gaurav; Powell-Jackson, Timothy; Haldar, Kaveri; … - 2017
Objective: To evaluate the quality of essential care during normal labour and childbirth in maternity facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India. Methods: Between 26 May and 8 July 2015, we used clinical observations to assess care provision for 275 mother-neonate pairs at 26 hospitals. Data on 42 items...
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India: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance
El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
India is the third largest economy and has the second largest population in the world. It achieved millennium development goal (MDG) on poverty reduction; however, gender inequality still persists. Maternal mortality rate is 190 deaths per 100,000 live births, representing a 65 percent decline...
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Do fertility control policies affect health in old age? : evidence from China's one-child experiment
Islam, Asadul; Smyth, Russell - In: Health economics 24 (2015) 5, pp. 601-616
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Spillover effects of early-life medical interventions
Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Daysal, N. Meltem; Simonsen, … - 2015
We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement. Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …
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Population and economic growth : ancient and modern
Brezis, Elise S.; Young, Warren - In: The European journal of the history of economic thought 23 (2016) 2, pp. 246-271
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Happy people have children : choice and self-selection into parenthood
Cetre, Sophie; Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2016
There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well … between children and subjective well-being is positive only in developed countries, and for those who become parents after the … individuals are more likely to have children. …
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