We examine the link between public spending in health and health outcomes by leveraging differential exposure to a … health spending reform prompted by Brazil's 29th Constitutional Amendment, which mandated municipalities to spend at least 15 …% of their budget on health. We map dynamic effects on health care spending, inputs, access, outputs and outcomes. For …

better health at birth even conditional on the observable maternal characteristics which predict selection. …

health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …

the mother's health and health-related behaviours and exposures are systematically positively associated with the …

births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non- IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor … market outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health …

We study the mechanism of action of an early-life social safety net program, and quantify its impact on child health …), Chile's flagship early-life health and social welfare program, using administrative birth data matched to social benefits … outcomes toward the middle of the distribution of health at birth. We show that the program is efficient when compared to other …

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico … observe small or null impacts on women's health from increasing sanctions on illegal abortion. We find some evidence to …

through municipal public health-care centres. Combining a number of administrative datasets on health outcomes and …'s reproductive health outcomes, particularly reducing rates of haemorrhage early in pregnancy. These improvements are most notable in … pill upon a women's request is linked with a worsening in reproductive health outcomes. …

for 17 million births in 72 countries, we demonstrate that indicators of mother's health and health-related behaviours are … and poorer countries, evident even among women who do not use IVF, and hold for numerous different measures of health. We …