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Does universalization of healthwork? : evidence from health systems restructuring and expansion in Brazil
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2019
We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of births. Using rich administrative data, we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974631
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Contraceptive access creates positive selection in infant health
Flynn, James - 2024
This paper documents an important unintended consequence of expanding contraceptive access; namely that it creates positive selection in the health of the children being born. I use a family planning intervention which gave thousands of long-acting reversible contraceptives to reproductive-age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015069416
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Can expanding contraceptive access reduce adverse infant health outcomes?
Flynn, James - 2024
This paper uses the implementation of a privately funded family planning program in Colorado to demonstrate that expanding access to long-acting reversible contraceptives to lower income women creates positive selection in the health of the children being born, reducing the rates of extremely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582281
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The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality Among Natives
Aygün, Aysun - 2020
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health … infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality—with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality.Our OLS results yield … refugees put on the health care services in Turkey, as well as the government's response, to understand our findings on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824426
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The effect of hosting 3.4 million refugees on the health system in Turkey and infant, child, and elderly mortality among natives
Aygün, Aysun; Kirdar, Murat G.; Tuncay, Berna - 2020
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health … infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality - with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality. Our OLS results yield … refugees put on the health care services in Turkey, as well as the government's response, to understand our findings on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267912
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The effect of hosting 3.4 million refugees on the health system in Turkey and infant, child, and elderly mortality among natives
Aygün, Aysun; Kirdar, Murat G.; Tuncay, Berna - 2020
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health … infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality - with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality. Our OLS results yield … refugees put on the health care services in Turkey, as well as the government's response, to understand our findings on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271501
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Infant mortality and the health of survivors: Britain 1910 - 1950
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection effect and a negative scarring effect. Examining town-level panel data on the heights of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269894
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Infant mortality and the health of survivors : Britain 1910 - 1950
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection effect and a negative scarring effect. Examining town-level panel data on the heights of school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962578
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Prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes
Averett, Susan; Fletcher, Erin K. - 2015
We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 survey are examined. Outcomes include macrosomia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528667
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Saving lives at birth : the impact of home births on infant outcomes
Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629032