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The Effects of Maternal Welfare Receipt on Children’s Development
, 2006 Over the past 25 years, welfare and other public policies for families living below the poverty line have developed a primary objective of promoting parents’ self-sufficiency.
Doskov, Nikolay O.
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, 2011 We analyze the role that early years policy might play in narrowing educational attainment gaps. We begin by examining gaps in school readiness between low-, middle-, and high-income children, drawing on data from new large and nationally representative ...
Waldfogel, Jane, Washbrook, Elizabeth
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger +8 more
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The biopolitics of menstruation in Hungary: Then and now [PDF]
Pravni ZapisiThis article focuses on postwar Hungary, including the transition from state socialism to peripheral capitalism. This era is especially important as during the decades of cold war one of the main claims was that social and welfare rights - including the ...
Sándor Judit
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Welfare Reform and Children's Short-Run Attainments [PDF]
Using PIAT Math test score as a measure of attainment, we find that both single mothers' work and welfare use in the first five years of their children's lives have a positive effect on children's outcomes, but this effect declines with initial ability ...
Chyi, Hau, Ozturk, Orgul
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Delivering at Home or in a Health Facility? Health-Seeking Behaviour of Women and the Role of Traditional birth attendants in Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2013 Traditional birth attendants retain an important role in reproductive and maternal health in Tanzania. The Tanzanian Government promotes TBAs in order to provide maternal and neonatal health counselling and initiating timely referral, however, their role
A Byrne +28 more
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Preschool and maternal labour market outcomes: evidence from a regression discontinuity design [PDF]
, 2009 Expanding preschool education has the dual goals of improving child outcomes and work incentives for mothers. This paper provides evidence on the second, identifying the impact of preschool attendance on maternal labor market outcomes in Argentina.
Berlinski, S., Galiani, S., McEwan, P.J.
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Autosomal recessive loss‐of‐function variants in PPP1R13L cause an ultra‐rare cardiocutaneous syndrome characterized by rapidly progressive arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM). PPP1R13L encodes iASPP, which has two potentially overlapping mechanisms driving ACM as both a regulator of NFκB‐mediated inflammation and a binding partner within the ...
Aaron Renberg +9 more
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Postpartum weight retention among women in Rio de Janeiro: a follow-up study
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2003 This study presents follow-up results on trends in postpartum weight retention among women in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at 0.5, 2, 6, and 9 months postpartum.
Kac Gilberto +3 more
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How Sibling Composition Affects Adolescent Schooling Outcomes When Welfare Reform Policies Increase Maternal Employment [PDF]
Pooling across seven experimental studies, this paper examines the role of sibling composition in influencing the effects of 14 welfare and employment programs on adolescents.
Lisa A. Gennetian
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