In this paper, we aim to assess the relationship between water and sanitation coverage and saved infant lives. Our … reconciled with equity (in the sense that the winners of the coverage increases and the health improvements are the poorer). …

driven by women's needs for widowhood insurance. We use a duration model of birth intervals to show that women most exposed … health costs : short birth spacing raises maternal and infant mortality rates. …

demands (for water, sanitation or health services) and neglect the valuation of nonmarket goods (like ecosystems, biodiversity … developing countries and show, through a survey implemented in Moshi (Tanzania) about demand for sanitation, some methodological …

consortium has been accepted; it included a research project on the improvement of the sanitation services in Moshi (Tanzania …Following an invitation to tender of the French Foreign Office on research on management of urban waste-water in … developing countries, a consortium of institutions from France and Tanzania has been created in 2000. The proposition of the …

and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … poverty trap. We examine changes in public policies: increasing public intervention on health or environmental maintenance …

We studied the effect of health events (accidents and chronic diseases) on the occupation probabilities at the … matching estimators, we found that health events have a strong impact on individual labor market histories. The workers … also found that the less quali…ed workers, women, and workers with short term jobs are the most negatively affected by …

subsequent weeks; consider heterogeneity across prize type, gender, age, and calendar month; and explore differential effects on …

examining the consequences of agricultural primary commodity export on population's health via physical environment degradation … commodity export increases agricultural methane and nitrous oxide emissions as well as water pollution (biological oxygen demand …). This environmental degradation from trade worsens population's health (infant and child mortality rates, and life …

survivors health is crucial for the design of post-war economic policies. This paper investigates this question for the … Mozambican civil war, using an original geo-referenced event dataset. I find that women exposed to the conflict during the early … years of life have a weaker health, reflected by a lower height for age z-score (HAZ). Using the Infancy Childhood Puberty …