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behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may … function as a mediator between family background and subsequent poor health behavior, potentially reconciling previous mixed …
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In this study, we assess formal education as a causal determinant of women's malaria preventive behaviour, as well as … children's risk of malaria infection. For identification, we rely on exogenous variation in educational attainment generated by … educational reforms during the 1970s. We use data from a total of four rounds of either Demographic and Health Surveys or Malaria …
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We study whether a sudden increase of the price of rice supplied by the Indian Public Distribution System in Andhra Pradesh, a large Indian state, had a negative impact on child nutrition. A few months after the price increase, a health survey started to record weight for a large sample of...
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We study the impact on young children's bodyweight of switching from means-tested to universal provision of nutritious free school meals in England, exploiting identifying variation in the timing of weight measurements. We show that exposure to high quality universal free lunches increases...
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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 around birth leads to lower life-time educational attainment and …
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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 around birth leads to lower life-time educational attainment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232535
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 around birth leads to lower life-time educational attainment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129095
This study examines the impact of early life malaria exposure on cognition in sample of Mexican adults, using the … nationwide introduction of malaria eradication efforts, along with the fact that more burdened states experienced larger absolute … malaria eradication was associated with increases in Raven Progressive Matrices test scores and consumption expenditures, but …
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We investigate the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of the two main investments that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive,...
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