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Social Norms and Information in Menstrual Health Management

Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina - 2021

Inadequate hygiene during menstruation can have severe consequences, such as adverse health effects, lower educational attainment and higher work absenteeism. Cultural taboos and social norms surrounding menstruation may be responsible for misinformation on menstrual hygiene and may also prevent...

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries

Rönkkö, Risto; Rutherford, Stuart; Sen, Kunal - 2021

In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the livelihoods of the poor. We use an unusually rich data set from a 'financial diaries' study known as the Hrishipara Daily Diaries Project. The data set tracks the economic and financial transactions of 60 individuals...

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Impacts of Double-Fortified Salt on Anemia and Cognition: Four-Year Follow-up Evidence from a School-Based Nutrition Intervention in India

von Grafenstein, Liza; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021

Long-term follow-up of early childhood health interventions is important for human capital accumulation. We provide experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition intervention in India. Using panel data, we examine the...

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Gender Inequality and Caste: Field Experimental Evidence from India

Islam, Asad; Pakrashi, Debayan; Sahoo, Soubhagya; Wang, … - 2021

Using a field experiment in India where patients are randomly assigned to rank among a set of physicians of the same gender but with different castes and years of experience, we show that the differences in patients' physician choices are consistent with gender-based statistical discrimination....

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Effect of socioeconomic factors on malnutrition among children in Pakistan

Ahmad, Dilshad; Afzal, Mohammad; Imtiaz, Aisha - In: Future Business Journal 6 (2020) 1, pp. 1-11

.528-1.972), wealth quintile (OR = 2.174, CI 95% 1.234-3.376) and sanitation facility (OR = 0.789, CI 95% 0.627-1.987). Wasting status was …

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Taking cover: Human capital accumulation in the presence of shocks and health insurance

Font-Gilabert, Paulino - 2020

Using the expansion of a large-scale health insurance program in Mexico and variation in local rainfall levels, I estimate whether the program-induced increase in healthcare coverage protected the educational attainment of primary school children in the event of adverse climatic shocks. Results...

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Social proximity and misinformation: Experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India

Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2022

We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns and the persistence of misinformation. We implement a field experiment among a representative sample of slum residents in two major Indian cities...

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Early Life Exposure to Above Average Rainfall and Adult Mental Health

Pasha, Mochamad; Rockmore, Marc; Tan, Chih Ming - 2018

We study the effect of early life exposure to above average levels of rainfall on adult mental health. While we find no effect from pre-natal exposure, post-natal positive rainfall shocks decrease average Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CESD) mental health scores by 15 percent and...

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Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes? Evidence from household panel data in Uganda

Pickbourn, Lynda; Caraher, Raymond; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2022

Empirical studies on the effectiveness of aid to the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector (WASH aid) have focused … importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the effectiveness of WASH aid should also be evaluated in terms of its … improvements in child health outcomes remains a challenge. This paper uses geocoded sub-national data on the location of WASH aid …

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Breaking the Silence

Mang, Clarissa; Castro, Silvia - 2023

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