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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2010
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278543
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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925159
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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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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries : the penalty of gender inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2010
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313343
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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries : the penalty of gender inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha B. - In: Journal of public economics 95 (2011) 3/4, pp. 286-299
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009270791
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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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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries : the penalty of gender inequality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Sam - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008807180
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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 …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …
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 …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151296
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Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries : The Penalty of Gender Inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134987