This article estimates the causal effect of distance to health facility on in-facility birth in rural India, taking into account the endogenous placement of the health facility. We find that women living farther away from the health facilities are less likely to give birth at a health facility....

This paper presents the results of a study commissioned by the Latin American and Caribbean Technical Department of the World Bank to document and analyze health expenditures in Latin America and the Caribbean. In 1990, the countries of this region spent US$ 69 billion on health, with an average...

Mortality data have become increasingly important not only in health related studies but also in development studies as a whole. The demand for data on life expectancy and the infant mortality rate is met by five publications--the UN Demographic Yearbook, World Population Prospects, World...