In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while … others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials … on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways … economy by examining the association of war wounds with the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US CivilWar (1861 …-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been severely wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

causal impact of air quality on infant mortality across Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining detailed information on nearly 1 ….5 concentration driven by distant dust emission causes a 22% increase in infant mortality across our African sample (95% CI: 10 …-35%), an effect comparable to quasi-experimental pollution-infant mortality estimates from wealthier countries. We also show …

baseline, husbands display lower knowledge of maternal mortality and morbidity compared to their wives. At followup, about one …

not been very successful at reproducing the changes in fertility choice in response to decreased mortality and increased … due to an implicit assumption that number and utility of children are complements, which is a byproduct of the high …, and changes in mortality which account for 90 percent of the predicted change from 1880 to 1950 …

children born after WWII. Using state-level data on income growth, smoking, obesity and education, we explain over 70% of the … variance in current CVD mortality rates across the country …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …