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Personal belief exemptions for school-entry vaccinations, vaccination rates, and academic achievement

Hair, Nicole L.; Gruber, Anja; Urban, Carly - 2020

. This paper examines how expanding the availability of exemptions influences vaccination rates in early childhood and … vaccination coverage among black and low-income preschoolers by 16.1% and 8.3%, respectively. Furthermore, we find that those …

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Personal belief exemptions for school-entry vaccinations, vaccination rates, and academic achievement

Hair, Nicole L.; Gruber, Anja; Urban, Carly - In: Journal of health economics 78 (2021), pp. 1-38

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The impact of paid family leave on the timing of infant vaccinations

Choudhury, Agnitra Roy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2019

Raising a new-born child involves not only financial resources, but also time investment from the parents. A time constraint can affect important decisions made by parents at the early stages of an infant's life. One form of investment that is particularly important is vaccinating an infant. We...

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Reminder design and childhood vaccination coverage

Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan; Wüst, Miriam - 2023

A major policy concern across public vaccination programs is non-compliance. Exploiting Danish population data and … three national reforms in regression discontinuity designs, we document the effects of reminders for childhood vaccination … recommended vaccination age. Digital and postal reminders are equally effective. Prospective reminders increase timely …

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Evidence on maternal health from two large Canadian parental leave expansions : when is enough too much?

Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; … - 2016 - Revised version

Exploiting unique administrative longitudinal data sets on medical services provided to mothers before- and after- delivery, we estimate the causal effects of two major distinct parental leave reforms on maternal health outcomes, over a period of 5 years postpartum. The health outcomes are...

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Anthropometric Mobility During Childhood

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013

While childhood obesity has become a significant public health concern over the last few decades, knowledge concerning the origins of or persistence in childhood anthropometric measures is incomplete. Here, we utilize several nonparametric measures of mobility to assess the evolution of weight,...

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Can Viagra Advertising Make More Babies? Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on Public Health Outcomes

Kim, TI Tongil; Kc, Diwas Singh - 2020

Although product advertising has been widely studied and understood in relation to the consumer’s purchase decision, advertising may also have unintended but important societal and economic consequences. In this paper, we examine a public health outcome — birth rate — associated with...

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The Role of Women's Empowerment on Child Nutrition in India

Chatterjee, Poulami - 2019

Child malnutrition remains a pervasive problem in India though there are significant improvements in several health indicators with country's consistent economic growth. Along with other factors, maternal autonomy is considered to be critical in influencing health outcome of a child. This paper...

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Anthropometric mobility during childhood

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013

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The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence

Millimet, Daniel L. - 2013

Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last few decades. Non-causal evidence suggests that childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little is known about the origins of this persistence. In this paper we attempt to answer three questions. First,...

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