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Bharadwaj, Prashant , Fenske, James, Kala, Namrata and Ali Mirza, Rinchan (2020) The green revolution and infant mortality in India. Journal of Health Economics , 71 . 102314. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102314 ISSN 0167-6296.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102314
Abstract
We use a difference in differences approach to show that the adoption of High Yielding Varieties (HYV) reduced infant mortality in India. This holds even comparing children of the same mother. The effects of HVY adoption on mortality are larger for rural children, boys, and low-caste children. While we are not able to explore mechanisms in depth, our evidence points to a limited role played by increased investments in early childhood health or selection into childbearing in response to HYV adoption.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Infants -- Mortality -- India, Child development -- India, Child care -- India, Agricultural innovations -- India, Rural development -- India, High Yielding Varieties Programme, Crop yields | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Health Economics | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0167-6296 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | May 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 71 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 102314 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102314 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 March 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 September 2021 | ||||||||
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