Contraception as development?: New evidence from family planning in Colombia
In: NBER working paper series 11704
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In: NBER working paper series 11704
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 120, Heft 545, S. 709-736
ISSN: 1468-0297
Women's choices appear to emphasize child welfare more than those of men. This paper presents new evidence on how suffrage rights for American women helped children to benefit from the scientific breakthroughs of the bacteriological revolution. Consistent with standard models of electoral competition, suffrage laws were followed by immediate shifts in legislative behavior and large, sudden increases in local public health spending. This growth in public health spending fueled large-scale door-to-door hygiene campaigns, and child mortality declined by 8-15% (or 20,000 annual child deaths nationwide) as cause-specific reductions occurred exclusively among infectious childhood killers sensitive to hygienic conditions.
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w11704
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w22085
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In: Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 426
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 9809
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In: Population and development review, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 7-26
ISSN: 1728-4457
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w18932
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w18964
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In: Journal of political economy, Band 118, Heft 1, S. 113-155
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: NBER Working Paper No. w11096
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