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Community-Based Health Programs and Child Vaccinations : Evidence from Madagascar

Herrera, Catalina; Rosales-Rueda, Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Vaccinations are a cost-effective tool to prevent child mortality and morbidity; however, their access and take-up remain low in developing countries. We analyze the effects on child vaccinations of a large-scale community-based health worker program that aimed to reach remote areas distant from...

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Long-Term Determinants of the Demographic Transition, 1870–2000

Murtin, Fabrice - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 617-631

since 1870. A simple theoretical framework accounts for the possibly nonmonotonic variations of fertility in the course of …-related variables, is the most robust determinant of the fertility transition. As regards the health transition, both education and …

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Chapter 57 Child Labor

Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007

In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...

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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …

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Fertility and the Education of African Parents and Children

Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic … theory posit that these phenomena are linked, with slow fertility decline connected to slow education growth among both …, fertility, and child education in female birth cohorts surrounding the onset of the region's fertility transition. Fertility …

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Medium-Term Health Impacts of Shocks Experienced In Utero and After Birth: Evidence from Detailed Geographic Information on War Exposure

Akresh, Richard; Thirumurthy, Harsha; Caruso, German Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper estimates the impact of armed conflict on subsequent health outcomes using detailed geographic information on households’ distance from conflict sites—a more accurate measure of conflict exposure— and compares the impact on children exposed in utero versus after birth. The...

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School Meals as a Safety Net: An Evaluation of the Midday Meal Scheme in India

Dercon, Stefan; Park, Albert; Singh, Abhijeet - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses newly available longitudinal data from the state of Andhra Pradesh in India to estimate the impact of the introduction of a national midday meal program on anthropometric z-scores...

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Undernutrition and Psychosocial Competencies: Evidence from Four Countries

Dercon, Stefan; Sánchez, Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Both cognitive and non-cognitive skills matter to understand a child's opportunities and outcomes in adulthood. However, it is unclear how non-cognitive skills are acquired and what the role played by household investments is in this process. Motivated by suggestions from the medical literature...

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Live aid revisited: long-term impacts of the 1984 Ethiopian famine on children

Dercon, Stefan; Porter, Catherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it one of the worst in recent history. The mortality impacts are clearly signicant. But what of the survivors? This paper provides the first estimates the long-term impact of the...

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Should Cash Transfers Be Conditional? Conditionality, Preventive Care, and Health Outcomes

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Oppedisano, Veruska; … - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 7 (2015) 2, pp. 35-52

We study a Conditional Cash Transfer program in which the cash transfers to the mother only depend on the fulfillment of the national preventive visit schedule by her children born before she registered in the program. We estimate that preventive visits of children born after the mother...

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