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Maternal Employment, Migration, and Child Development
Liu, Haiyong; Mroz, Thomas A.; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2015
outcomes in the U.S. We investigate the interactions among and endogeneity of these inputs in the production of child outcomes … by specifying and estimating a behavioral model of parent's decisions that can affect these outcomes. We focus on two … development, modeled through a production function for child outcomes. The environment in which these decisions are made is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071400
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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Chen, Lan; … - 2009
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859380
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Place Effects and Geographic Inequality in Health at Birth
Chyn, Eric; Shenhav, Na'ama - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
favorably to policies that target maternal health, and could have a small, lasting effect on long-run outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388779
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The impact of early childbearing on schooling and cognitive skills among young women in Madagascar
Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2015
Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women's human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346608
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Myopic misery : maternal depression, child investments, and the neurobiological poverty trap
Strulik, Holger - 2016 - Revised Version: October 2016
In this paper, I explore in an overlapping generations framework, a mechanism motivating a neurobiological poverty trap. Poverty causes stress and depression in individuals susceptible to depression. Poor and depressed individuals discount the future at a higher rate and invest less in the human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556908
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Household responses to information on child nutrition : experimental evidence from Malawi
Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi; Mesnard, Alice; … - 2012
This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health practices - lack of information - in a resource constrained setting. It examines the effects of a randomized intervention in Malawi which provides mothers with information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520660
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Maternal Depression,Women's Empowerment, and Parental Investment : Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial
Baranov, Victoria - 2017
We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women's financial empowerment and parenting decisions. We leverage experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial that provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942094
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Can Shorter Mothers Have Taller Children? Nutritional Mobility, Health Equity and the Inter-Generational Transmission of Relative Height
Finaret, Amelia B. - 2020
This study develops the concept of nutritional mobility, defined here as the probability that a mother ranked low in her cohort's height distribution will have a child who attains a higher rank order. We demonstrate that rank-order regression provides a robust metric of health equity, revealing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822739
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Maternal employment and children's outcomes : evidence from Indonesia
Dervisevic, Ervin; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Perova, Elizaveta - 2021
female-intensive sectors. We find that maternal employment significantly improves both education and health outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012797033
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Relationship between Water and Sanitation and Maternal Health : Evidence from Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A.; Chase, Claire; Contreras Suarez, Diana - 2021
Poor household water supply and sanitation can affect maternal and newborn health outcomes through several pathways … (IFLS), we investigate the relationship between water and sanitation and outcomes along the course of a pregnancy - health … birth, and neonatal outcomes including birth weight and newborn survival rates. After controlling for confounding factors …
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