with 1–2 weeks later arrival and no detectable reduction in final mortality. The case for permanent limits on international …

, reducing its nutritional value. At the urging of public health experts, cities across the country hired milk inspectors, who …-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. …

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 … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as … measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey … provided at family health centers, which operate on a walk-in basis and are located within the neighborhoods in close proximity …

There has been a longstanding debate about the link between political representation and health. In this article, I … representation generated substantive health benefits for the general population. Using the exemplary case of Switzerland, I first … redistribution or total spending. Based on comprehensive archival mortality statistics since 1890, I then demonstrate that the …

and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered a process of adaptation reducing mortality from infectious …

, 2020, 40 states and the District of Columbia adopted SIPOs. This study explores the impact of SIPOs on health, with …, but estimated mortality effects were imprecisely estimated. …

We examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy … Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. Our results show that health and energy consumption are … strongly linked in Africa. Unilateral causality is found from energy consumption to life expectancy and child under-5 mortality …

positive selection in the health of the children being born. I use a family planning intervention which gave thousands of long … variation in contraceptive access to demonstrate that it reduced the rates of both extremely preterm births and infant mortality …

expanding access to long-acting reversible contraceptives to lower income women creates positive selection in the health of the … children being born, reducing the rates of extremely preterm births and infant mortality. My most conservative estimates … mortality gap between the U.S. and other leading economies. …