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Using provider performance incentives to increase HIV testing and counseling services in Rwanda
De Walque, Damien; Gertler, Paul J.; … - In: Journal of health economics 40 (2015), pp. 1-9
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Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda
Baulia, Susmita - 2018
A stylised fact in the development literature is that resource-constrained households in low-income countries invest very little in preventive healthcare. This paper investigates how the households trade off investment in their children's preventive healthcare during idiosyncratic shocks when...
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The Impact of Transitory Income on Birth Weights: Evidence from a Blackout in Zanzibar
Burlando, Alfredo - Department of Economics, University of Oregon - 2010
Do transitory income shocks affect infant health? I find evidence that birth weights fell following a temporary income reduction caused by an unexpected, month-long blackout in Zanzibar. Relying on 350 household surveys collected during field work, I show that the 2008 blackout reduced labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692939
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Economic Growth and Child Undernutrition in Africa
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan; Vollmer, Sebastian - UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa, United Nations … - 2012
Abstract: Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved … income growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We do this by pooling all DHS surveys for African countries … than economic growth and appear to contribute to a slowing of progress in reducing undernutrition in Africa. …
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African Doctor Migration : Are Economic Shocks to Blame?
Okeke, Edward N. - 2013
It is widely believed that poor economic conditions in developing countries contribute to the migration of health professionals. In this paper we test this hypothesis using new panel data on the annual flow of physicians from 31 African countries to the United States and the United Kingdom. The...
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Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children
Akresh, Richard; Verwimp, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in 1992. We exploit district and time variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703096
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Wage Rentals for Reproducible Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana and the Ivory Coast
Schultz, T. Paul - School of Management, Yale University - 2004
Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent sustained growth in factor productivity. To compare the contribution of these four human capital inputs, an expanded specification of the wage function is estimated from household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005587194
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Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children
Akresh, Richard; Verwimp, Philip - Households in Conflict Network - 2006
Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in 1992. We exploit district and time variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005636404
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Transitory shocks and birth weights: Evidence from a blackout in Zanzibar
Burlando, Alfredo - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 154-168
Do transitory economic shocks affect neonatal outcomes? I show that an unexpected, month-long blackout in Tanzania caused a sharp but temporary drop in work hours and earnings for workers in electricity-dependent jobs. Using records from a maternity ward, I document a reduction in birth weights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010777148
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VIH/Aids and alcohol: re-examination of the relation from african data
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This article re-examines the relationship alcohol and VIH/Aids, while resorting to another methodological approach that utilized by Fisher et al., (2007) and Kalichman et al. (2007). We confirm a direct relation of alcohol to the AIDS.
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