Gender Differences in Children's Antibiotic Use and Adherence
Using in-home health records for 1,763 children in Mali, this paper examines gender differences in the uptake and duration of treatment with antibiotics. The detailed data provide a window into parents’ day-to-day decisions while accounting for sym...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/227691612963422330/Gender-Differences-in-Childrens-Antibiotic-Use-and-Adherence http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35134 |
| Summary: | Using in-home health records for 1,763
children in Mali, this paper examines gender differences in
the uptake and duration of treatment with antibiotics. The
detailed data provide a window into parents’ day-to-day
decisions while accounting for symptoms. There are no gender
differences in starting treatment, but boys are over 10
percentage points more likely to complete a course of
antibiotics than girls. This difference is driven by
families with an educated household head. An explanation may
be that (male) household heads are less involved in caring
for girls, so that benefits from education that lead to
better care accrue overproportionally to boys. |
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