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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes : Evidence from India

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2013

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation … in legislator identity generated by close elections between Muslim and non-Muslim candidates. We find that increasing the …

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Fertility transitions in developing countries : convergence, timing, and causes

Papagni, Erasmo - 2018

This paper studies the dynamics of fertility in 180 countries in the period 1950ñ 2015 and investigates the determinants of the onset of fertility transitions. The application of Phillips and Sulís (2007) test to fertility rates provides evidence of convergence in three groups of countries....

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Infant health and longevity : evidence from a historical trial in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2015

This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy, contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which provided information, support and monitoring of...

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Infant health and longevity : evidence from a historical trial in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2015

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Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World

Geruso, Michael - 2018

We study how extreme temperature exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the absence of vital registration systems in many poor countries, which has been a limiting factor in the temperature-mortality literature, by extracting birth histories from...

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The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh Famine

Hernández-Julián, Rey; Mansour, Hani; Peters, Christina - 2013

This paper uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy outcomes. Using the 1996 Matlab Health and...

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Fertility and early-life mortality: Evidence from smallpox vaccination in Sweden

Ager, Philipp; Hansen, Casper Worm; Jensen, Peter Sandholt - 2014

We examine how the introduction of smallpox vaccination affected early-life mortality and fertility in Sweden during the first half of the 19th century. We demonstrate that parishes in counties with higher levels of smallpox mortality prior to the introduction of vaccination experienced a...

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Death, sex and fertility: Female infanticide in rural Spain, 1750-1950

Tapia, Francisco J. Beltrán; Marco-Gracia, Francisco J. - 2020

Relying on longitudinal micro data from a Spanish rural region between 1750 and 1950, this article evidences that families mortally neglected a significant fraction of their female babies. On the one hand, baptism records exhibit exceptionally high sex ratios at birth, especially during the 19th...

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Droughts and gender bias in infant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Flatø, Martin; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2014

Are African girls more exposed than boys to risk of infant mortality during crises and if so, is the difference due to discrimination? To answer these questions, we combine retrospective fertility data on over 1.5 million births from Demographic and Health Surveys with data on rainfall...

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The declines in infant mortality and fertility: Evidence from British cities in demographic transition

Newell, Andrew T.; Gazeley, Ian - 2012

At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was roughly halfway through a 60-year demographic transition with declining infant mortality and birth rates. Cities exhibited great and strongly correlated diversity in these rates. We demonstrate cross-section correlations with, for instance,...

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