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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that their occurrence is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence challenging this premise. Using data on about 18 million births in 72 countries, we find that maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577906
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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925159
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630379
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for more than 18 million births (more than 500,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594542
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894898
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - In: The review of economics and statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 660-672
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763670
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by … aggregate shocks and trends in unobservables within countries, while a panel of children within mother is exploited to control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892847
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by … aggregate shocks and trends in unobservables within countries, while a panel of children within mother is exploited to control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151296
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Maternal depression, women's empowerment, and parental investment : evidence from a large randomized control trial
Baranov, Victoria; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Biroli, Pietro; … - 2017
We evaluate the long-term impact of treating maternal depression on women’s financial empowerment and parenting decisions. We leverage experimental variation induced by a cluster-randomized control trial that provided psychotherapy to perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770420
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Twin birth and maternal condition
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for 17 million births in 72 countries, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896677