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Does timing of health and family planning services matter? : age at first birth and educational attainment in Indonesia

Strupat, Christoph - 2014

This paper examines empirically whether midwifes, as an integral part of the health and family planning programs in Indonesia, are effective in advising young women to delay their first birth and also influence the decision on post-primary school attendance. Using the Indonesian Family Life...

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Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health : Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh

Joshi, Shareen - 2012

The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from...

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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India

Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...

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HIV and Fertility in Africa : First Evidence from Population Based Surveys

Juhn, Chinhui - 2009

The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that...

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Early life access to polio vaccines and declining disability rates in India

Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022

We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus-free in 2014. Average treatment effects on the treated...

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Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood : Evidence from India

Kumar, Santosh - 2019

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Detailed Geographic Information, Conflict Exposure, and Health Impacts

Akresh, Richard - 2016

. Conflict-exposed children have lower height-for-age, and impacts using GPS information are 2-3 times larger than if exposure is …

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Exposure to Negative Shocks and Child Development : Evidence from Boko Haram Attacks

Ige, Mofioluwasademi (Moffii) - 2021

variation in the location and timing of Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria and new measures of physical, cognitive, and psychological … the effect on height is mediated by nutrition and parental investments can explain 7% of the effect on psychological …

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Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children

Akresh, Richard - 2013

Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children's health several years after the shock. We calculate height … shocks that children experience at birth on their height several years later. We find that girls born after a shock in a … region experiencing these events exhibit 0.72 standard deviations lower height for age z-scores and the impact is worse for …

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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Socioeconomic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall

Maccini, Sharon - 2010

attain 0.14 centimeters greater height, finish 0.15 more years of schooling, live in households with 5.2% higher expenditures …

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