Professor Sonia Bhalotra has organised a conference on Health and Gender: Global and Economic Perspectives supported by the Newton Fund and the ESRC Centre for Research on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC) at the University of Essex on September 23-24.
Presentations include
- Marianne Bitler (UC Davis), Keynote, Experimental Evidence on Distributional Effects of Head Start
- Charlotte Watt (LSHTM and DFID)
Gender Inequality and Intimate Partner Violence: Global perspectives - Sonia Bhalotra (Essex)
Does Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from health systems restructuring and maternal health in Brazil - Paul Hunt (Essex – Law and Human Rights) Brazil’s Family Health Program and Human Rights
- Damian Clarke (Santiago, Chile)
Maternal Mortality and the Status of Women - Libertad Gonzales (UPF Barcelona)
The Effects of Abortion Legalization on Fertility, Marriage, and Long-term Outcomes for Women - Vellore Arthi (Essex) Infant Nutrition and Children’s Growth and Mortality: Evidence from London’s Foundling Hospital, 1892 – 1919
- Hanna Muhlrad (Stockholm) Fertility and Women’s Labour Supply: Evidence from IVF reform in Sweden
- Mircea Trandafir (University of Southern Denmark) Heterogeneous Effects of Medical Interventions on the Health of Low-Risk Newborns
- Casper Hansen (Copenhagen) Preventing the White Death: Tuberculosis dispensaries
- Alison Andrew (IFS) Demand-Side Financing and Perinatal Mortality: Evidence from India
- Farah Said (Lahore School of Economics) Gender and Agency within the Household: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
Download the detailed programme here
To register please email Janice Webb