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children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … characteristics, and girl children exhibit poorer nutritional status than boys. Results from a quantile decomposition procedure …
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examines how the temporary migration of parents for work affects the health outcomes of children left behind using the …
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This study examines disparities in health and nutrition among native and Syrian-refugee children in Turkey. With a view … mortality between refugee children born in Turkey and native children. However, refugee infants born in Turkey have lower …
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This study examines disparities in health and nutrition among native and Syrian-refugee children in Turkey. With a view … mortality between refugee children born in Turkey and native children. However, refugee infants born in Turkey have lower …
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Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along … parents left behind in the rural area. The impact of migration of the adult children on the health of their left …-behind parents is ambiguous. On the one hand, the additional income from the children's jobs can allow their parents to afford better …
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We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States …
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We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan in the early 20th century. We find that malaria exposure...
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The maternity benefit scheme introduced as Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY) in 2011 and renamed Pradhan Mantri Matriva Sahyog Yojana (PMMVY) in 2017, which incentivizes pregnant and lactating women to participate in various infant health-promoting activities, is India's largest...
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-2014, this paper examines the impact of RASKIN on children's health status. Using the difference-in-difference estimator, we find … that children from the households that are beneficiaries of the RASKIN program show improved health status as measured by … children aged between 0 and 5 years old in 1993 and 1997 respectively until their adolescence/adulthood. We find evidence of …
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We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting decisions. We leverage experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial that provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one...
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