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US Presidential Party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2021
that prohibits aid to overseas non-governmental organisations (NGOs) if they offer abortion-related information or services …
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Abortion laws and women's health
Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna - 2018
We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico …. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion …, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on illegal abortion. We observe that the original progressive policy resulted …
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The impact of legal abortion on maternal mortality
Farin, Sherajum Monira; Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren; Pesko, … - 2022
Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential healthcare service. In this study, we consider whether … abortion legalization over 1969-1973 improved women's health, measured by maternal mortality. Our event-study results indicate … that legal abortion substantially lowered non-white maternal mortality by 30-40%, with 113 non-white maternal deaths …
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The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality
Farin, Sherajum; Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren; Pesko, Michael - 2023
Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential healthcare service. In this study, we consider whether … abortion legalization over 1969-1973 improved women's health, measured by maternal mortality. Our event-study results indicate … that legal abortion substantially lowered non-white maternal mortality by 30-40%, with 113 non-white maternal deaths …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263485
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Family ruptures and intergenerational transmission of stress
Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2014
The high and rapidly increasing prevalence of mental illnesses underscores the importance of understanding their causal origins. This paper analyzes one factor at a critical stage of human development: exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures during the fetal period. We find that in...
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The value of socialized medicine : the impact of universal primary healthcare provision on birth and mortality rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul; Güneş, Pınar Mine; Tekin, Erdal; … - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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The Value of Socialized Medicine : The Impact of Universal Primary Healthcare Provision on Birth and Mortality Rates in Turkey
Cesur, Resul - 2015
This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015025
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Double trouble: The burden of child rearing and working on maternal mortality
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Farbmacher, Helmut; Guber, Raphael; … - 2020
We document increased old-age mortality rates among Swedish twin mothers compared to non-twin mothers. Results are based on administrative data on mortality for the years 1990 to 2010. We argue that twins are an unplanned shock to fertility in the cohorts of older women considered. Deaths due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388876
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Double trouble: the burden of child rearing and working on maternal mortality
Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Farbmacher, Helmut; Guber, Raphael; … - 2020
We document increased old-age mortality rates among Swedish twin mothers compared to non-twin mothers. Results are based on administrative data on mortality for the years 1990 to 2010. We argue that twins are an unplanned shock to fertility in the cohorts of older women considered. Deaths due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229573
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Armed Conflicts, Children's Education and Mortality : New Evidence from Ivory Coast
Ouili, Idrissa - 2015
Among the sub-Saharan African countries, Ivory Coast was recently suffered more than ten years of political instability and absence of peace. Using nationally representative household surveys, I exploit temporal and geographical variations of the 1999-2011 Ivorian political instability to...
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