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Short and Medium-Run Health and Literacy Impacts of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic in Brazil
Guimbeau, Amanda; Menon, Nidhiya; Musacchio, Aldo - 2022
We study the lasting repercussions of the 1918 influenza (‘Spanish Flu’) pandemic on healthmeasures and literacy rates in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the most populous city in South Americatoday, but significantly poorer a century ago. Leveraging temporal and spatial variation indistrict-level...
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The impact of extreme weather events on child health : evidence from Mongolia ; conference paper
Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - 2014 - Draft
This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia. We employ a diff-in-diff strategy to identify the effect of an extremely harsh winter in 2010, which caused the death of about 20 percent of the national livestock. Results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483868
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The long-run labor-market consequences of civil war : evidence from the Shining Path in Peru
Galdo, Jose - 2010
. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that health rather than schooling is the most important channel in connecting early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984792
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Family planning and women's and children's health : long term consequences of an outreach program in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2012
The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …, and greater use of preventive health inputs. Some benefits also diffused beyond the boundaries of the program villages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537579
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Evaluating the impact of community-based health interventions : evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
Rocha, Romero; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2009
This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the … schooling. Evidence suggests that the Family Health Program is a highly cost-effective tool for improving health in poor areas …. -- Family health program ; mortality ; household behavior ; impact evaluation ; Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831242
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Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions : Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
Rocha, Romero - 2009
This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the … schooling. Evidence suggests that the Family Health Program is a highly cost-effective tool for improving health in poor areas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763930
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Auswirkungen familienpolitischer Instrumente auf die Fertilität : internationaler Vergleich für ausgewählte Länder : Studie im Auftrag der Robert Bosch Stiftung
Meier, Volker - 2005
In allen OECD-Ländern sind die Geburtenraten in den letzten vierzig Jahren erheblich gesunken. Trotz dieses gemeinsamen Trends kann aber sowohl in der zeitlichen Entwicklung als auch im aktuellen Stand des Geburtenverhaltens eine erhebliche Heterogenität beobachtet werden. Deutschland, Spanien...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011848493
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Perturbed nuptiality, delayed fertility : childbirth effects of Covid19
Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Muhammad Rashid - 2021
An aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic that merits attention is its effects on marriage and childbirth. Although the direct fertility effects of peo- ple getting the virus may be minor, the impact of delayed marriages due to the first preventive lockdown, such as that imposed in Pakistan from March...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012505098
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Estimating Causal Effects of Fertility on Life Course Outcomes : Evidence Using A Dyadic Genetic Instrumental Variable Approach
Zheng, Boyan; Lu, Qiongshi; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The causal effects of fertility are a central focus in the social sciences, but the analysis is challenged by the endogeneity of fertility choices. Earlier work has proposed several "natural experiments" from twin births or gender composition of earlier births to assess whether having more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226152
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Auswirkungen familienpolitischer Instrumente auf die Fertilität : internationaler Vergleich für ausgewählte Länder ; Studie im Auftrag der Robert Bosch Stiftung
Meier, Volker - 2005
In allen OECD-Ländern sind die Geburtenraten in den letzten vierzig Jahren erheblich gesunken. Trotz dieses gemeinsamen Trends kann aber sowohl in der zeitlichen Entwicklung als auch im aktuellen Stand des Geburtenverhaltens eine erhebliche Heterogenität beobachtet werden. Deutschland, Spanien...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003209419