TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Valente, Christine
AU  - Sievertsen, Hans Henrik
AU  - Puri, Mahesh C.
        TI  - Saving Neonatal Lives for a Quarter
        PY  - 2020/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13719
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13719
        AB  - Over 400,000 children die annually from neonatal sepsis, despite several RCTs finding that this can be prevented by chlorhexidine cord care (CHX) for only US$0.23 per dose. Unresolved heterogeneity in findings and other RCT scalability concerns contribute to slow CHX adoption. Studying the first national CHX roll-out — in Nepal — we find that CHX reduces neonatal mortality by 56 percent for births predicted to take place at home. We find no effect for predicted health facility births, which is consistent with heterogeneity in prior experimental estimates. Conditional on predicted place of delivery, there is little significant treatment effect heterogeneity.
        KW  - chlorhexidine
KW  - neonatal mortality
KW  - Nepal
        ER  -