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Poor housing quality and the health of newborns and young children
Hajdu, Tamás; Kertesi, Gábor; Szabó, Bence - 2023
This study uses linked administrative data on live births, hospital stays, and census records for children born in Hungary between 2006 and 2011 to examine the relationship between poor housing quality and the health of newborns and children aged 1-2 years. We show that poor housing quality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468522
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Poor housing quality and the health of newborns and young children
Hajdu, Tamás; Kertesi, Gábor; Szabó, Bence - 2023
This study uses linked administrative data on live births, hospital stays, and census records for children born in Hungary between 2006 and 2011 to examine the relationship between poor housing quality and the health of newborns and children aged 1-2 years. We show that poor housing quality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452539
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Estimación indirecta de la tasa de mortalidad infantil en Colombia, 1964-2008
Acosta, Karina; Julio Romero P. - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - ECONOMÍA REGIONAL - 2014
En este trabajo se analiza la dinámica de la tasa mortalidad infantil (TMI) en Colombia entre 1964 y 2008, estimando a … y la existencia de sesgos en trabajos anteriores que investigaron la magnitud de la TMI en Colombia para la década de … Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) in Colombia from 1964 to 2008 using two different sources of data. First estimates come through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778433
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Estimación indirecta de la tasa de mortalidad infantil en Colombia, 1964-2008
Ordóñez, Karina Acosta; Prieto, Julio Romero - In: REVISTA ECONOMÍA & REGIÓN (2014)
En este trabajo se analiza la dinámica de la tasa de mortalidad infantil (TMI) en Colombia entre 1964 y 2008, estimando … y la existencia de sesgos en trabajos anteriores que investigaron la magnitud de la TMI en Colombia para la década de …-urbana y entre regiones. La disminución de la TMI en Colombia se ha visto reforzada por una reducción en la proporción de …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147562
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The Consequences of the Demographic Transition for Women’s Status in Society
Namasaka, Martin - 2015
The demographic transition is perhaps the most important event to occur in human affairs during the last 250 years, since the time of the enlightenment. It started in the countries of north-western Europe, and it has gone on to affect the rest of the world (Dyson 2009). Signified by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015245743
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Introducing gender in sub-national HDRs: an exercise for Bardhaman district of Bengal
Ray, Jhilam; Rajarshi, Majumder - 2015
While developing the District Human Development Index, one takes into account the average level of economic well being, education level and health care available in a block and makes a comparative assessment between the blocks/ municipalities of a district. However, this index fails to capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015249914
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Intergenerational transmission in health: Causal estimates from fixed effects instrumental variables models for two cohorts of Australian children
Le, Huong; Nguyen, Ha - 2015
This paper contributes to an emerging body of literature on intergenerational transmission in health by presenting the first causal estimates on the impact of maternal mental health on child health. The potential endogeneity of maternal mental health is dealt with by utilising nationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015249933
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Maternal health-seeking behavior and child’s birth order: Evidence from Malawi, Uganda, and Zimbabwe
Makate, Marshall - 2016
Factors influencing maternal health-seeking behavior before and shortly after birth have been widely studied, while the role of birth order in shaping these actions is infrequently examined. This study sought to examine the critical role played by a child’s birth order in altering the maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015252693
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Negative supply shocks and delayed health care: evidence from Pennsylvania abortion clinics
Hall, Andrea - 2023
In 2011, Pennsylvania passed regulations requiring abortion-providing facilities to meet ambulatory surgical facility standards, which ultimately caused the closure of almost half of the state's abortion facilities. All closing facilities were geographically near facilities that remained open,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015212991
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Distance to Abortion Facilities and Child Living Conditions-Implication of the Abortion Law Change in the United States
Lee, Cheuk Ling; Chong, Terence Tai Leung - 2024
This paper aims to study the effect of distance to abortion facilities on the birth rate, abortion ratio and pregnancy rate in the United States. It will further extend the effect of the change in birth statistics on child living conditions, measured by adjusted family income and the percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015213339