physical violence while the victim is pregnant) on health outcomes of children born to victims. We use data on approximately 0 … understanding of the child health production process in a developing country context. …

This paper investigates the consequences of prenatal exposure to hot temperatures on child health in Sub-Saharan Africa … of the Demographic and Health Surveys merged with gridded data on the presence of heat waves and their magnitude since … the 1980s, we investigate the effects of inutero exposure to heat waves on several birth and early childhood health …

investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

selection ; ultrasound ; sex ratio at birth ; gender discrimination ; child health …