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Temperature and sex ratios at birth
Ghany, Jasmin Abdel; Wilde, Joshua; Dimitrova, Anna; … - 2024
Sex ratios at birth shape populations and are linked to maternal health and gender discrimination. We estimate the effect of prenatal temperature exposure on birth sex by linking data on 5 million births in 33 sub-Saharan African countries and India with high-resolution temperature data. We find...
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Does Grief Transfer Across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014
death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother’s parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … control for whether there is a death around the time of the pregnancy in order to isolate true causal effects of a bereavement … during pregnancy. We find small negative effects on birth outcomes, and these effects are bigger for boys than for girls. The …
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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 Health : Looking to the Past to Inform the Present
Farin, Sherajum Monira; Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren; Pesko, … - 2021
From 1959 to 1980, abortion-related mortality declined by 97%, and maternal mortality fell by 86%. In this study, we … question whether the legalization of abortion over 1969-1973 explains a portion of this maternal mortality decline. We exploit … state-level variation in changes to abortion laws predating Roe vs. Wade, as well as the effect of Roe vs. Wade on states …
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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 …
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Delaying the bell : the effects of longer school days on adolescent motherhood in Chile
Kruger, Diana I.; Berthelon, Matias E. - 2009
%. -- Adolescent motherhood ; adolescent pregnancy ; school day reform ; Chile …
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Worth the wait? : the effect of early term birth on maternal and infant health
Buckles, Kasey; Guldi, Melanie - 2016
Early term birth is defined as birth at 37 or 38 weeks gestation. While infants born early term are not considered premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of serious adverse health outcomes compared to infants born at term (39 or 40 weeks). Despite these known...
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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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