infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

reduced maternal mortality by 6 to 7 percent. In addition, we find that requiring midwives to be licensed may have had led to … modest reductions in nonwhite infant mortality and mortality among children under the age of 2 from diarrhea. These estimates …

about the effects of in utero exposure to alcohol on long-run outcomes such as later-life mortality. Here, we investigate … how state by year variation in alcohol control arising from the repeal of federal prohibition affects mortality for … cohorts born in the 1930s. We find that individuals born in wet states experienced higher later-life mortality than …

-level data for the period 1880-1910, we explore the effects of milk inspections on infant mortality and mortality among children …-treatment reductions in either infant or child mortality. …

Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline …

mortality, as a development indicator. A unique dataset comprising 44 sub-Saharan African countries spanning from 1970 to 2010 …

We examine the effect of domestic violence on mortality of children born to female victims using Demographic and Health … violence and child mortality while controlling for potential confounds. We find that children of (ever) victimized mothers are … mortality using an instrumental variables strategy. Exploiting variation in domestic violence and marital rape laws across …

measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … and over time. Our estimates indicate that the FMP caused large declines in mortality rates across all age groups with … teenagers. Furthermore, the results are suggestive that the program has also contributed towards equalization in the mortality …