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Family planning program effects : a review of evidence from microdata
Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460250
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New evidence about effects of reproductive variables on child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
Kravdal, Øystein - 2016
There is considerable uncertainty about how reproductive factors affect child mortality. Joint determinants are … diverging results. According to very simple models estimated from DHS data from 28 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, mortality is … highest for first-born children with a very young mother. Also some other groups of children with a young mother, or of high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585183
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Maternal longevity and the sex of offspring : evidence from pre-industrial Sweden
Cesarini, David (contributor); Lindqvist, Erik (contributor) - 2007
Helle et al. (2002) used data from Finnish parish records to study the cost of bearing sons vis-à-vis daughters in terms of postmenopausal longevity and found a large and significant cost associated with sons. In this paper, we replicate and extend their analysis on a larger dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003408335
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After midnight : a regression discontinuity design in lenght of postpartum hospital stays
Almond, Douglas; Doyle, Joseph J. - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003686581
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Wealth and antenatal care use : implications for maternal health care utilisation in Ghana
Arthur, Eric - In: Health economics review 2 (2012) 14, pp. 1-8
that wealth still has a significant influence on adequate use of Antenatal care. Education, age, number of living children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752865
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MDGs and gender inequality
Kulkarni, Vani S.; Pandey, Manoj; Gaiha, Raghav - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010232487
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Why are adult women missing? : son preference and maternal survival in India
Milazzo, Annamaria - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259635
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Life expectancy and mother-baby interventions : evidence from a historical trial
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2016
This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483902
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Family ruptures, stress, and the mental health of the next generation
Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485640
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Where have all the young men gone? Using sex ratios to measure fetal death rates
Sanders, Nicholas J.; Stoecker, Charles - In: Journal of health economics 41 (2015), pp. 30-45
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563474