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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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Don't stress : early life conditions, hypertension, and selection into associated risk factors

McGovern, Mark E. - 2012

. I find that infant mortality at birth is positively related to hypertension, even allowing for cohort effects, and …

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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

in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel … contributing to these health gains. -- medical technology ; birth ; home birth ; mortality …

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Sanitation and child health in India

Augsburg, Britta; Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul - 2015

Our study contributes to the understanding of key drivers of stunted growth, a factor widely recognized as major impediment to human capital development. Specifically, we examine the effects of sanitation coverage and usage on child height for age in a semi-urban setting in Northern India. We...

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Religion and Child Health

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …

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Saving Lives at Birth : The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes

Daysal, N. Meltem - 2012

in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel …

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Parental Unemployment and Child Health in China

Pieters, Janneke - 2016

certain health investments, including children's diets. Our results support the notion that traditional gender roles can …

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Birth Weight and Infant Health for Multiple Births

Saavedra, Martin Hugo - 2018

I provide plausibly causal estimates of the effect of birth weight using data from the universe of twins, triplets, and quadruplets born between 1995-2000 in the United States. Infants from higher-order multiple births have lower birth weights, but experience smaller reductions in infant health...

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Communication barriers and infant health : intergenerational effects of randomly allocating refugees across language regions

Auer, Daniel; Kunz, Johannes - 2021

records of all refugee arrivals and birth events between 2010 and 2017 show that children born to mothers who were exogenously …

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Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality : Recent Evidence from Bangladesh

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - 2021

This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where … significantly lower child mortality rates even among adolescent women. This offers an attractive policy option particularly when … effects of early childbirth on child mortality are reversed. The favourable effects of use of health inputs however continue …

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