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We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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Despite the freely and publicly provided health care in Botswana, the proportion of low birth weight infants increased … Statistics Botswana, the paper jointly estimates the adequate prenatal care utilization (input demand) and infant birth weight … birth weight information is not available for all infants, we also estimate a Heckman sample selection model to account for …
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This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....
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The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In …Durch die Lotterie der Geburt wachsen manche Kinder in einem benachteiligten Umfeld auf und andere in einem Umfeld, in … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early …
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The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …
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The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In …Durch die Lotterie der Geburt wachsen manche Kinder in einem benachteiligten Umfeld auf und andere in einem Umfeld, in … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012250089
order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment. High-quality administrative data on children born …-born siblings are healthier than the first-born child, and increase with birth order. Consequently, first-born children are more …Research has shown that cognitive and non-cognitive skills, education and earnings decrease with birth order. Less is …
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order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment. High-quality administrative data on children born …-born siblings are healthier than the first-born child, and increase with birth order. Consequently, first-born children are more …Research has shown that cognitive and non-cognitive skills, education and earnings decrease with birth order. Less is …
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