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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Characteristics in Rural China

Leight, Jessica - 2018

suggest that there is significant heterogeneity with respect to maternal education. More educated mothers appear to compensate … educated mothers reinforce these differences. Most importantly, there is evidence that these compensatory investments are … associated with the narrowing of non-cognitive deficits over time for children of more educated mothers, while there is no …

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Cultural Barriers to Maternal Health Care in Rural Bangladesh

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

Bangladesh is a country with over one third of the population living in poverty and another one third living just above poverty level. The World Health Organization (2010) indicates that Bangladesh has poor prenatal and postpartum care, nutritional deficiencies, high incidence of non-skilled...

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Economic Consequences of Maternal Illness in Rural Bangladesh

Hoque, Mohammad Enamul; Powell-Jackson, Timothy - 2010

We use panel data on household consumption combined with information taken from the medical records of women who gave birth in health facilities to explore the economic consequences of maternal ill health, in the context of a rural population in Bangladesh. We find that households are able to...

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

Acharya, Laxmi Bilas; Cleland, John - 2008

low quality posts. The corresponding figure for receipt of BCG vaccination is 8.1. By comparison, the effects of travel …

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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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