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Biting Back at Malaria – Self-Medication, Traditional Healers, and the Public Sector

Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Reichert, Arndt R. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2013

Malaria kills about 1,500 children every day. Based on the Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine malaria treatment practices of various health care providers in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 90 percent of the world’s deaths due to malaria occur. To assess the quality of each health...

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Circular migration, marriage markets, and HIV : long-run evidence from Mozambique

Denton-Schneider, Jon - 2024

I study the impacts of exposure to one of Africa's largest circular migration flows using an arbitrary border within Mozambique that, from 1893 to 1942, separated areas where young men were either pushed into or prevented from migrating. Counterintuitively, but consistent with historical...

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Distributionally sensitive measurement and valuation of population health

Da Costa, Shaun; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Gestel, Raf - 2023

We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both agespecific health and lifespan. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary...

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Property rights and gender bias : evidence from land reform in West Bengal

Bhalotra, Sonia; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - 2016

unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West …

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Gender differences in access to health care among the elderly : evidence from Southeast Asia

Rodgers, Yana; Zveglich, Joseph E. - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 2, pp. 59-92

, the gender difference is reversed in Viet Nam where the stigma and discrimination associated with some diseases may more …. However, for the subsample of elders, the gender difference is not significant. (Asian Dev Rev/GIGA) …

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Cognitive development and infectious disease : gender differences in investments and outcomes

Bhalotra, Sonia; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - 2013

Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in … a 0.1 standard deviation increase in test scores, but only for girls. We show that a reason for the gender … water provision to narrow test score gaps across countries and, within countries, across gender. …

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Gender differences in access to health care among the elderly : evidence from Southeast Asia

Rodgers, Yana; Zveglich, Joseph E. - 2021

, the gender difference is reversed in Viet Nam where stigma and discrimination associated with some diseases may more …. However, for the subsample of elders, the gender difference is not significant. …

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COVID-19, race, and gender

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2021

The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Using individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the...

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COVID-19, race, and gender

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2021

The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496842

Pandemic depression : COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …

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