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Early life shocks and mental health

This paper provides causal evidence on early-life exposure to war on mental health status in adulthood. Using an instrumental variable strategy, the evidence indicates that early-life exposure to bombing during the American war in Vietnam has long...

  • Health outcomes
  • War
  • Mental health
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Maternal employment and children’s outcomes

Is maternal employment beneficial or harmful for child development? Maternal employment generates income, which is needed to provide core inputs for children’s health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time spent with...

  • Child development
  • Indonesia
  • Female labour force participation
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Early life shocks and mental health

This paper provides causal evidence on early-life exposure to war on mental health status in adulthood. Using an instrumental variable strategy, the evidence indicates that early-life exposure to bombing during the American war in Vietnam has long...

  • Health outcomes
  • War
  • Mental health
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The effect of Hukou registration policy on rural-to-urban migrants’ health

Access to social services in China is connected to a system of household registration (Hukou system) determined by place of origin with difficult geographical transferability. As a consequence, a vast majority of rural-to-urban migrants do not have...

  • Internal migration
  • Hukou registration system
  • Health outcomes
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Beyond access to basic services

The social determinants of health have not been studied extensively in low-income contexts, where most studies focus on access to medical care. We undertake a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the social determinants of health in Mozambique...

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  • Health equity
  • Self-assessed health
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Indonesia's huge fires and toxic haze will cause health problems for years to come
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by Maria C. Lo Bue October 2019

Indonesia is currently in the throes of an environmental emergency. Thousands of hectares of forest are burning across the vast country, causing toxic...

  • Maternal and child health
  • Health outcomes
  • Environment and climate
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