The fertility-inhibiting effect of mosquitoes: Socio-economic differences in response to the Zika crisis in Colombia

We estimated the impact of the Zika virus outbreak on birth rates and demand for health care services in Colombia. Our analysis exploits the variation in the level of natural protection against mosquito-transmitted diseases across the country. This characteristic induced exogenous variation in Zika...

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2019

Institución:

Universidad del Rosario

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Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario

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eng

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oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/23894

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2019.05.001
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/23894

Palabra clave:

Adolescent
Adult
Article
Birth rate
Causality
Child
Colombia
Educational status
Epidemic
Female
Female fertility
Health service
Human
Infection control
Mosquito
Nonhuman
Retrospective study
Socioeconomics
Virus transmission
Zika fever
Zika virus
Birth rate
Epidemic
Incidence
Methodology
Patient attitude
Socioeconomics
Young adult
Zika fever
Zika virus
Adolescent
Adult
Birth rate
Child
Colombia
Disease outbreaks
Female
Health services
Humans
Incidence
Patient acceptance of health care
Research design
Socioeconomic factors
Young adult
Zika virus
Zika virus infection
Colombia
Fertility
Synthetic control
Zika

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