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Damian C. Clarke
Damian is an Associate professor in economics at the University of Chile and a research associate at the Center for the Study of African Economics in Oxford. His research focuses on maternal and child health and education, fertility and family size, and applied microeconometrics. He also has interests in innovation, the development of open source knowledge, and in open source software development. Damian completed his D.Phil. in Economics at Oxford in 2015, and has worked for a number of international organisations and government bodies, focusing on education and health, in Latin America, and in West Africa.
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How women in politics impact maternal mortality
In the twelfth post of I4I’s month-long campaign to mark International Women’s Day 2023, Bhalotra et al. show that mortality during and after childbirth remains high, even where the knowledge and resources to avoid this are available, and demonstrate that raising the share of women in parliament can trigger action. Leveraging the introduction of gender quotas across developing countries, they identify reductions in maternal mortality, through increased skilled birth attendance and prenatal care utilisation, alongside a decline in fertility and an increase in schooling.
