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The captain of the men of death and his shadow: Long-run impacts of early life pneumonia exposure
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - 2011
We exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937 to identify the causal impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on … pneumonia as these were the areas that benefited most from the availability of sulfa drugs. These estimates are, in general … our finding that African Americans experienced larger absolute reductions in pneumonia mortality after the arrival of …
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Cut Off From Caregivers : The Children of Incarcerated Parents in Louisiana
Kirkland, Auriel; Jones, Victor M.; Blackburn, Cheyenne; … - 2021
An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children experiences parental incarceration today, compared...
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Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Children and Adolescents
Bhardwaj, Atul - 2015
Worldwide 10-20% of children and adolescents experience mental disorders. Mental disorders, if remain untreated, can impose enormous and lifelong burden to the individual, family and society. Yet, a large proportion of affected children do not receive treatment owing to poor accessibility to...
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The Dangers of Psychotropic Medication for Mentally Ill Children : Where is the Child's Voice in Consenting to Medication? An Empirical Study
Stone, Donald H. - 2014
When a child with a mental illness is being prescribed psychotropic medication. who decides whether the child should take the medication -- the parent or the child? What if the child is sixteen years of age? What if the child is in foster care: Should the parent or social service agency decide?...
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Child Maltreatment in the Indian Context
K Damodaran, Deepa; Rapheal, Jeny; Paul, Varghese - 2015
Childhood experiences during the early years set a critical foundation for the entire life course, as these shape early child development which in turn strongly influence one’s health throughout life. Child maltreatment includes all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual...
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Public Drug Insurance and Children’s Use of Mental Health Medication : Risk-Specific Responses to Lower Out-Of-Pocket Treatment Costs
Furzer, Jill; Isabelle, Maripier; Miloucheva, Boriana; … - 2022
While the long-term consequences of unmet child mental health needs are well-documented, out-of-pocket costs remain an important barrier to accessing medication in childhood and adolescence. This paper exploits the implementation of a public drug insurance program in Québec, Canada, to estimate...
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In-Utero Exposure to Local COVID-19 Incidence and Infant Birthweight in Brazil
Devaraj, Srikant; Patel, Pankaj; Pereira, Igor - 2021
In this paper, we investigate whether in-utero exposure to municipal-level COVID-19 incidence rates in Brazil was associated with lower infant birth weight. To lower endogeneity related to conception during COVID-19, we include infants who were conceived before and born after, the first official...
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Saving lives at birth: The impact of home births on infant outcomes
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; van Ewijk, Reyn - 2012
Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where home births are widespread. To account for endogeneity in...
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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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 regression discontinuity design that exploits changes in medical treatments across the very low birth weight (VLBW) cutoff. Using administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm...
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