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Intrahousehold health care financing strategy and the gender gap : empirical evidence from India
Asfaw, Abay; Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - 2008
The "missing women" dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of … meager resources on hospitalization of boys rather than girls. We use the 60th Indian National Sample Survey and a … that while the gap in the probability of boys' and girls' hospitalization and usage of household income and savings is …
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Is Household Shock a Boon or Bane to the Utilisation of Preventive Healthcare for Children? Evidence From Uganda
Baulia, Susmita - 2021
A stylized fact in the development literature is that resource-constrained households in low-income countries invest very little in preventive healthcare. This paper investigates how the households trade off investment in their children’s preventive healthcare during idiosyncratic shocks when...
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Women's Health Choices and the Effects on Child Health
Hindman Persson, Therese - 2011
This paper analyses, both theoretically and empirically, women's health choices and their effects on child health for a sample of rural households in Cebu, Philippines. The present study differs from other studies by analysing separately prenatal and postnatal determinants of child health both...
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Economic opportunities and gender differences in human capital : experimental evidence for India
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
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Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital : Experimental Evidence for India
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462632
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Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital : Experimental Evidence for India
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143129
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Invitations, Incentives, and Conditions : A Randomized Evaluation of Demand-Side Interventions for Health Screenings in Armenia
de Walque, Damien - 2020
The study is a randomized controlled trial that investigates the impact of four demand-side interventions on health screening for diabetes and hypertension among Armenian adults ages 35-68 who had not been tested in the last 12 months. The interventions are personal invitations from a physician...
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The effect of SMS reminders on health screening uptake: a randomized experiment in Indonesia
Marcus, Maja E.; Reuter, Anna; Rogge, Lisa; Vollmer, … - 2021
While the burden of non-communicable diseases is rising in low- and middle-income countries, the uptake of screening for these diseases remains low. We conducted a community-based RCT in Indonesia to assess whether personalized and targeted text messages can increase the demand for existing...
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Paying patients for prenatal care : the effect of a small cash transfer on stillbirths and survival
Celhay, Pablo; Johannsen, Julia; Martinez, Sebastian; … - 2017
We study the effects of conditional cash transfers to pregnant women on stillbirths and child survival in Bolivia. Payments are conditional on compliance with medically recommended prenatal care and skilled birth attendance. At a value equivalent to just 1% of monthly household consumption, the...
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Formal education, malaria preventive behaviour, and children's malarial status in Tanzania
Klejnstrup Ritter, Ninja; Lincoln, Joel Silas - 2018
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...
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