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Birth spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India : dynamics, frailty and fecundity

Bhalotra, Sonia R. (contributor); … - 2006

,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available … mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations … suggest that, for every neonatal death, an additional 0.37 children are born, of whom 0.3 survive. -- fertility ; birth …

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Violence and birth outcomes : evidence from homicides in Brazil

Koppensteiner, Martin; Manacorda, Marco - 2015

This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence - measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that exposure to violence during the first trimester of...

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Violence and birth outcomes : evidence from homicides in Brazil

Koppensteiner, Martin; Manacorda, Marco - 2015

This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence – measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that exposure to violence during the first trimester of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307896

Birth order and health of newborns : what can we learn from Danish registry data?

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Molitor, Ramona - 2015

Research has shown a strong negative correlation between birth order and cognitive test scores, IQ, and educational outcomes. We ask whether birth order differences in health are present at birth using matched administrative data for more than 1,000,000 children born in Denmark between 1981 and...

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Migration, health knowledge and teenage fertility : evidence from Mexico

Battaglia, Marianna - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 2, pp. 179-206

Migrationmay affect fertility and child health care of those remaining in the country of origin.Mexican data show that …

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Prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes

Averett, Susan; Fletcher, Erin K. - 2015

We investigate the association between prepregnancy obesity and birth outcomes using fixed effect models comparing siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 survey are examined. Outcomes include macrosomia,...

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Spillover effects of early-life medical interventions

Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Daysal, N. Meltem; Simonsen, … - 2015

We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits changes in medical treatments across the very low birth weight (VLBW) cutoff. Using administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm...

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Saving lives at birth : the impact of home births on infant outcomes

Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2012

Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where home births are widespread. To account for endogeneity in...

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Returns to childbirth technologies : evidence from preterm births

Daysal, N. Meltem; Trandafir, Mircea; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2013

We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...

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Brother sun, sister moon : the lunar cycle, sunspots and the frequency of births

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Heining, Jörg; … - 2010

Based on multivariate linear regression models, we analyze the effect of the lunar cycle and the number of sunspots occurring on a particular day on the number of births using social security data and controlling for a number of other potential confounders. The daily number of births between...

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