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Mothers at Peace: International Peacebuilding and Post-conflict Fertility

Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Elia, Leandro; … - 2023

A considerable body of empirical evidence indicates that conflict affects reproductive behaviour, often resulting in an increased fertility rate due to higher child mortality and limited access to healthcare services. However, we know much less about the effect of peace in a post-conflict...

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Intimate Partner Abuse and Child Health

Bharati, Tushar; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Vu, Loan - 2024

Despite the harmful effects of intimate partner abuse (IPA) on child health, survivors with children often continue in abusive relationships. It is often, they claim, to ensure a better future for their children. We explore the puzzle and this potential explanation using rich, longitudinal data...

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Socioeconomic inequalities in child health in Ireland

Layte, Richard; Nolan, Anne - 2013

. However, there is some international evidence that the SES gradient in child health is weaker for objective indicators of … 9 months and 9 years) to examine the SES gradient in various indicators of child health (length/height; weight …'s highest level of education, we find only limited support for the contention that the SES gradient in child health in Ireland …

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The impact of displacement on child health: Evidence from Colombia's DHS 2010

Wald, Nina - 2014

This paper investigates the causal impact of displacement on health outcomes for Colombian children of different age cohorts. It uses the Colombian Demographic and Health Survey 2010, which provides both a number of health outcomes and information about displacement of households. Two different...

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Gewaltsame Vertreibung beeinträchtigt die Gesundheit von Kindern in Kolumbien

Wald, Nina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 81 (2014) 46, pp. 1191-1197

Kolumbien ist nach Syrien das Land mit der weltweit größten Anzahl an Binnenflüchtlingen. Der jahrzehntelange und bis heute andauernde bewaffnete Konflikt zwischender kolumbianischen Polizei und den Streitkräften, paramilitärischen Gruppen und Guerillagruppierungen hat 5,7 Millionen...

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Domestic Abuse and Child Health

Rawlings, Samantha; Siddique, Zahra - 2014

We examine the effects of different kinds of domestic abuse (physical violence, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and physical violence while the victim is pregnant) on health outcomes of children born to victims. We use data on approximately 0.6 million children born between 1975 and 2013 across...

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Parental unemployment and child health

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2014

We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on parental unemployment. We find that children with...

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Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players

Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - 2015

mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we find that wealth increases …

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Communication Problems? The Role of Parent-child Communication for the Subsequent Health Behavior of Adolescents

Avdic, Daniel; Büyükdurmus, Tugba - 2015

We contribute to the literature on the determinants of socioeconomic health disparities by studying how the health behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may function as a mediator between family background and...

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The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia

Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Kuehnle, Daniel; … - 2015

Providing mothers with access to paid parental leave may be an important public policy to improve child and maternal health. Using extensive information from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Children (LSAC), we contribute to the literature by estimating the effect of paid parental leave...

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