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crises' impact on real per capita GDP, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty headcounts, and calorie supply per capita …
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decrease child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. There is, however, widespread concern that poor governance and in particular …
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/18, using published data on the measurement of approximately 890,000 recruits for the American Army for World War I. It also … connects those anthropometric measurements with an index of childhood mortality estimated from the censuses of 1900 and 1910 … primarily from the censuses of 1900 and 1910. The results indicate that early childhood mortality was a good (negative …
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Child injury mortality rates have declined steadily over time and across causes of death. This paper investigates … Mortality Detail Files on the number of child deaths by age, cause, and state and combine this information with data from the … producing health. These results provide a first effort in understanding the dramatic reduction in child injury mortality. They …
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This paper relies on birth and death lists from plantation records to investigate the causes of low birth weight and poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine was arduous overall and particularily intense during...
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mortality rates among large counties of the U.S. in 1977. After estimating cross-sectional regressions, we apply their … coefficients to national trends in the exogenous variables to "explain" the rapid decline in neonatal mortality since 1964. The … schooling levels, and to a lesser extent Medicaid, BCHS projects, and WIC in trends in black neonatal mortality between 1964 and …
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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 …
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to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …
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Using weekly mortality data for London spanning 1866-1965, we analyze the changing relationship between temperature and … mortality as the city developed. Our results show that both warm and cold weeks were associated with elevated mortality in the …. The resulting change in the temperature-mortality relationship meant that thousands of heat-related deaths-equal to 0 …
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This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis … and pandemic infant mortality during the 1957-58 outbreak. After Medicaid implementation, we find that better access to … insurance in high-eligibility states substantially reduced infant mortality during the 1968-69 pandemic. The reductions in …
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