expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the …

outcomes between physicians and another highly educated group, lawyers, and between surgeons and non-surgeon physicians … Education 2011 duty hour reform, which lowered trainee work hours, impacted the birth outcomes of babies born to physicians … compared with lawyers. We find that physicians have lower birth weights and shorter pregnancies than lawyers with the results …

, especially among vulnerable young adolescent mothers in Bangladesh. We exploit the exogenous variation in community's access to … local health facilities (both traditional and modern) before and after the completion of the 'Women's Health Project' in …, especially among adolescent mothers after the completion of Women's Health Project. …

. -- fertility ; family planning ; health and development ; program evaluation ; Bangladesh …The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra …

In this paper, I estimate the inter-generational health impact of maternal employment opportunities using evidence from … the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh. This industry was exposed to a trade liberalization policy in 2005, which …

's anthropometric outcomes. Leveraging six geo-referenced waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys merged with gridded ….15 standard deviations, respectively. Analyses of parental investments and health-seeking behaviors demonstrate that compensating … choices, leading to lower agricultural profitability. In particular, the effects of salinity on child health originate in …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity … health. …

HIV-positive men's treatment consumption and health outcomes. To establish a causal relationship between reviews and … for individuals who are in worse health and thus face stronger incentives to choose more effective medication despite side … health investments in the presence of adverse treatment side effects. …

There is evidence that physicians disproportionately suffer from substance use disorder and mental health problems. It … effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use and the receipt of treatment from a mental health facility … increases the use of antidepressants, opioids, anxiolytics, and sedatives, especially for female physicians. Among female …