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Basu, Arnab K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gbakou, Monnet; … - 2022

with girls' schooling, while greater bargaining power for mothers who are relatively more risk averse than the father …

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Economic Assessment of a Community-Based Package of Maternal and Newborn Care Interventions in Rural Bangladesh : Exploration of Cost-Effectiveness and Financial Barriers to the Pr...

LeFevre, Amnesty; Waters, Hugh R.; Haider, Sabbir; … - 2010

Evidence on the cost-effectiveness of packages of community-based maternal and neonatal health care interventions in low-resource settings is limited to a handful of studies based on primary and secondary data analyses. In addition, data on the household costs and decision-making processes...

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Cultural Barriers to Maternal Health Care in Rural Bangladesh

Walton, Lori Maria; Brown, Dawn; Schbley, PhD, Bassima - 2014

, nutritional deficiencies, high incidence of non-skilled birth attendant utilization, and the second highest maternal mortality and … morbidity rates next to sub-Saharan Africa. Women living in Bangladesh are at high risk for maternal mortality and morbidity in …

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Maternal and Child Health Services in Rural Nepal : Does Access or Quality Matter More?

Acharya, Laxmi Bilas; Cleland, John - 2008

This study seeks to establish the relative importance of service access and quality on utilization of preventive health services in the western and middle-western Hill region of Nepal. Access was measured in terms of travel time to the nearest health post and coverage by outreach workers. The...

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Poverty and Food Insecurity during COVID-19 : Telephone Survey Evidence from Mothers in Rural and Urban Myanmar

Headey, Derek; Goudet, Sophie; Lambrecht, Isabel; Oo, … - 2020

insecurity experiences, this study used a telephone survey conducted in June and July 2020 covering 2,017 mothers of …

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Welfare Reforms and Employment of Single Mothers are Rural Areas Keeping Pace?

McKernan, Signe-Mary - 2013

. These policies played a major role in stimulating employment among single mothers and the gains were approximately as high …

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The Glorified Mothers of Sons : Evidence from Sex Composition and Parental Time Allocation in Rural China

Fan, Yi; Yi, Junjian; Yuan, Ye; Zhang, Junsen - 2022

We study the effects of sons versus daughters on parental joint time allocation between thelabor market and the household. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Surveyfrom 1989 to 2006, we apply a fixed-effects model to control for cross-household hetero-geneity in son preference. We...

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