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, health services are found to improve the nutritional status of not only newly born babies but also children who were already …A growing body of literature shows that child health has substantial long-term economic impacts. This study examines … whether, and to what extent, increased access to health infrastructure leads to better child health status as measured by …
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little political power and residential choice. By comparing health development across ex ante similar children, we find that …Whether user fees for basic health services should be charged or abolished for the poor has recently been debated. This … study examines the impact on child health status of removing user fees in South Africa. Our main innovation is to exploit …
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, health services are found to improve the nutritional status of not only newly born babies but also children who were already …A growing body of literature shows that child health has substantial long-term economic impacts. This study examines … whether, and to what extent, increased access to health infrastructure leads to better child health status as measured by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332525
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health …, brought certain infectious diseases to the hosting communities, and have a high incidence of health care utilization. Moreover …, they have much higher fertility rates than natives (5.3 to 2.3). We examine the effect of Syrian refugees on the health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267912
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health …, brought certain infectious diseases to the hosting communities, and have a high incidence of health care utilization. Moreover …, they have much higher fertility rates than natives (5.3 to 2.3). We examine the effect of Syrian refugees on the health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271501
-trends in the data, we find that the presence of a midwife in a community in utero leads to an improvement in overall health …
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Targeted treatments of newborns with delicate health stocks have been shown to have considerable returns in terms of … targeted neonatal health policies based on birth weight assignment rules. While we observe well-known first generation impacts … reverting negative gradients in early life health and eventual fertility. These new stylised facts and results suggest the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412732
As of the end of 2017, 3.4 million Syrian refugees lived in Turkey. These refugees left a country where the health …, brought certain infectious diseases to the hosting communities, and have a high incidence of health care utilization. Moreover …, they have much higher fertility rates than natives (5.3 to 2.3). We examine the effect of Syrian refugees on the health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824426
worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health … interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests that both types of interventions may benefit not only child health …
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This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these specific interventions has varied greatly over...
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