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The Effect of Brazil's Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the effect of Brazil's Family Health Program (Programa Saude da Familia, FHP) on cognitive skills (measured by test scores) of fifth‐grade students. We use biennial data from national exams between 2007 and 2015, and variation in the FHP implementation date across municipalities, birth cohort, and test year to identify the ...
Pinar Mine Gunes, Magda Tsaneva
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Measuring the Impact of Armed Conflict on Population Health: A Guide for Researchers
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract The humanitarian impact of armed conflict remains a significant international issue, with an estimated 2 billion people residing in fragile or conflict‐affected settings. Despite increasing attention and study of armed conflict and its impact on human populations, few studies have evaluated the methods necessary to assess such relationships ...
Maya Luetke +2 more
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Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of complicated malaria in Colombia, 2019
The MicrobeBackground: Complicated malaria is a life-threatening condition characterized by high morbidity and mortality, demanding prompt diagnosis and treatment.
Carolina Ferro +4 more
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Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much
Jacob Barrett
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Non‐Naturalist Realism and Quietist Constructivism
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Metaethical quietists propose views that share all the features of robust non‐naturalist realism, such as a commitment to cognitivism and irreducibly normative truths, except robust realist non‐naturalists' commitment to non‐natural properties.
Rach Cosker‐Rowland
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When Regulation Travels: Distrust and Disrespect
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Endeavoring to avoid the pitfalls of being too trusting of regulated entities' compliance claims, regulators sometimes create regulatory systems with elaborate requirements for verification. But as these accountability and verification regimes attempt to circumvent one set of problems, they may inadvertently create others.
Carol A. Heimer
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Using Local Expert Knowledge to Measure Prices: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Vietnam
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many countries lack spatially disaggregated consumer price data needed to estimate real inequality and spatial patterns of poverty. Such data are especially absent in poor countries where weak infrastructure and high transport costs create large price variation over space.
John Gibson, Trinh Le
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Tropical Medicine and HealthBackground Plasmodium falciparum (P. falciparum) remains a significant public health challenge globally, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where it accounts for 99% of all malaria infections. The outcomes of P.
Alex Mwesigwa +13 more
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Individualized Transcriptional Resolution of Complicated Malaria in a Colombian Study. [PDF]
J Pers Med, 2018 Rojas-Peña ML +6 more
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