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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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. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that health rather than schooling is the most important channel in connecting early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141420
Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height … poor households. There is no impact of these shocks on boys’ health status. Results are robust to using household level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703096
Burundi’s civil war on children’s health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war’s timing …
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Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height … poor households. There is no impact of these shocks on boys’ health status. Results are robust to using household level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005636404
. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that health rather than schooling is the most important channel in connecting early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557220
importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the effectiveness of WASH aid should also be evaluated in terms of its … impact on health outcomes. This is especially important in low- and middle-income countries where achieving sustained … improvements in child health outcomes remains a challenge. This paper uses geocoded sub-national data on the location of WASH aid …
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health. This paper explores whether Ghana’s lower mortality rate is mostly a result of greater household wealth, better … implementation of national health policies, or more favorable geography. The paper uses micro level data for children under five to …’Ivoire, and Togo. A Cox proportional hazards model is used to test which of the three ‘contenders’ – health policy, wealth, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108728
Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...
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We use time-series of rainfall along with individual fixed effects to estimate the response of body weight to transitory changes in house-hold income and expenditure. Our data consist of a longitudinal sample of subsistence farmers in rural Tazania, representing one of the poorest populations in...
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