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Jona Schellekens

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel • jona(@)mail.huji.ac.il
Health and mortality

Maternal education and infant mortality decline in Indonesia

January 10, 2022January 10, 2022 Jona Schellekens
Asia, Children, Education, Mortality, woman

Better maternal education has been credited with making a major contribution to infant mortality decline. However, previous studies have overestimated the contribution of better maternal education. Using individual-level data from … Read more

Health and mortality

Explaining disability trends in the United States, 1963-2015

March 10, 2021January 20, 2020 Jona Schellekens
Americas, disability, Health, Mortality

Using the world’s longest running survey of health data, the National Health Interview Survey, Jona Schellekens shows that the decrease in mortality from cardiovascular disease in the US postponed the … Read more

Families and households

Children, happiness and religiosity: the evidence from Israel

March 10, 2021September 23, 2019 Jona Schellekens
Asia, Children, Family, israel

Religious couples tend to have more children than secular ones, suggesting that children add more to the happiness of the former than they do to the latter. Jona Schellekens investigated … Read more

Families and households

Fewer consanguineous marriages of Muslims in Israel

March 8, 2021March 25, 2018 Jona Schellekens, Guy Kenan and Ahmad Hleihel
Asia, Marriage, Women

Consanguinity has important implications for public health as it increases the risk of passing on autosomal recessive genetic disorders to the next generation. Thus, it is important that we learn … Read more

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