local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries …

This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and …

Climate change is predicted to affect global rainfall patterns, but there is mixed evidence with regard to the effect … of rainfall on civil conflict. Even among researchers who argue that rainfall reduces civil conflict, there is … variation in the relationship between rainfall and agricultural production to explore the connection between rainfall and civil …

The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their … parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in …

distance (while controlling for country size). Since geography may affect income through other channels, we also control for … income. We also show that the effect of migration operates through an increase in total factor productivity, which appears to …

cannot make large cuts in caloric intake without suffering serious health consequences. These results provide empirical …