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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010

-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero …, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that adverse outcomes due to the famine are largest for infants. Further, in … our regression analysis we exploit the fact that the famine was more severe in urban than in rural areas. Consistent with …

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Combatting Covid-19 - On Relative Performance of the Indian States

Marjit, Sugata; Mukhopadhyay, Anish Kumar; Chatterjee, Medha - 2020

The purpose of this paper is to construct a relative performance index for the States in India in terms of their performance in combatting Covid-19 pandemic. The data is analyzed up to August, 2020, though the methodology used can be readily extended to update the index. The methodology can be...

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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries: A preliminary survey

Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2011

The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...

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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development

Carson, Scott Alan - 2020

When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...

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Cultural Taboos and Misinformation about Menstrual Health Management in Rural Bangladesh

Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina - 2024

Every month, millions of women worldwide face challenges managing their menstrual hygiene, suffering negative impacts on their health, education, and productivity. Cultural taboos and social norms may contribute to harmful health behaviors and may also interfere with attempts to improve...

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Social Norms and Misinformation: Experimental Evidence on Learning about Menstrual Health Management in Rural Bangladesh

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 contribute to misinformation about menstrual hygiene and may also interfere...

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Social Norms and Misinformation : Experimental Evidence on Learning About Menstrual Health Management in Rural Bangladesh

Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina - 2021

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The Impact of Margaret Sanger's Birth Control Clinics on Early 20th Century U.S. Fertility and Mortality

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy M. - 2023

Margaret Sanger established the first birth control clinic in New York in 1916. From the mid-1920s, "Sanger clinics" spread over the entire U.S. Combining newly digitized data on the roll-out of these clinics, full-count Census data, and administrative vital statistics, we find that birth...

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Parental Paternalism and Patience

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal; … - 2021

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we ﬁnd that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...

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Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as Birth Control in Pre-Transition England

Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, Jacob L. - 2016

We use duration models on a well-known historical dataset of more than 15,000 families and 60,000 births in England for the period 1540–1850 to show that the sampled families adjusted the timing of their births in accordance with the economic conditions as well as their stock of dependent...

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