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Improved estimates of the benefits of breastfeeding using sibling comparisons to reduce selection bias

Reilly, Siobhan; Evenhouse, Eirik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Objective Better measurement of the health and cognitive benefits of breastfeeding by using sibling comparisons to reduce sample selection bias. Data We use data on the breastfeeding history, physical and emotional health, academic performance, cognitive ability, and demographic characteristics...

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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums

Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...

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The Effect of Leaded Aviation Gasonline on Blood Lead in Children

Zahran, Sammy; Iverson, Terrence; McElmurry, Shawn; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Lead is a neurotoxin with developmentally harmful effects in children. In the United States, over half of the current flow of lead into the atmosphere is attributable to lead-formulated aviation gasoline (avgas), used in a large fraction of piston-engine aircraft. Deposition of lead from avgas...

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Partnerships for Women's Health - Striving for Best Practice within the UN Global Compact / United Nations University Research Brief 1/2009 (www.unu.edu)

Timmermann, Martina; Kruesmann, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury, infection or disease. Despite medical advances, and years of policy declarations, this tragic situation remains particularly severe in developing countries, violating a fundamental...

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Socioeconomic factors as determinants of overweight and obesity. The Argentinian case.

Temporelli, Karina; Viego, Valentina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Obesity is a complex medical problem that according to World Health Organization has become a global epidemic. Its … suffer a double burden of disease arising from the coexistence of obesity and malnutrition. In this paper we analyze the … results from the Risk Factors National Survey relating the prevalence of obesity and overweight in Argentinean provinces with …

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Impact of Small Group Size on Neighborhood Influences in Multilevel Models

Theall, Katherine P.; Scribner, Richard; Lynch, Sara; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Objective: Although there is a growing body of literature on sample size in multilevel or hierarchical modeling, few studies have examined the impact of group size 5. Design: We examined the impact of a group size less than five on both a continuous and dichotomous outcome in a simple two-level...

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Child Health and the Income Gradient: Evidence from Australia

Khanam, Rasheda; Nghiem, Hong Son; Connelly, Luke B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...

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Premarital Sex – Lessons from American Experience

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

All over the world and in most of the current society and culture, most people consider premarital sex acceptable and harmless, but the major problem of premarital is sex that it often leads to divorce. The behavior and emotional problems are much higher in premarital sex situations than in...

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Twin Transitions

Aksan, Anna-Maria; Chakraborty, Shankha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We provide a new explanation for sub-Saharan Africa’s slow demographic and economic change. In a model where children die from infectious disease, childhood health affects human capital and noninfectious-disease related adult mortality. When child mortality falls from lower prevalence, as in...

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A causal analysis of mother’s education on birth inequalities

Bacci, Silvia; Bartolucci, Francesco; Pieroni, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We propose a causal analysis of the mother’s educational level on the health status of the newborn, in terms of gestational weeks and weight. The analysis is based on a finite mixture structural equation model, the parameters of which have a causal interpretation. The model is applied to a...

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