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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …
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. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …
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This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia. We employ a diff-in-diff strategy to identify the effect of an extremely harsh winter in 2010, which caused the death of about 20 percent of the national livestock. Results...
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. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that health rather than schooling is the most important channel in connecting early …
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Rwanda is among the few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the developing approaching universal health insurance … number of stand-alone community based health insurance schemes and gradually evolved into a unified social health insurance … plan. The country has also made remarkable progress in ameliorating child health, particularly since 2005, which coincides …
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An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …
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This paper uses microdata from Brazilian vital statistics natality and mortality data between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence -measured by homicide rates- on birth outcomes. Focusing on small communities, where it is more plausible that local homicide...
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for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market … be beneficial for both maternal and child health and for mothers' labor market outcomes. Second, there appear to be … negligible benefits from a leave extending beyond six months in terms of health out-comes and children's long-run outcomes …
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's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …
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