Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …

This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis … health insurance coverage mitigated disease transmission among the broader population. …

program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to promote small-scale decentralized rainfall …, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications. …

elevated health risks in later life led to a growing interest into whether fetal exposure to other – less severe - diseases … could cause health problems as well. Epidemiological studies of the fetal origins of later life health that followed found …, using quasi-experimental design to overcome this weakness, show that fetal conditions not only affect health in later life …

during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less educated, and more likely to have serious health problems, including … positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

. First, we cover the role of health in driving economic growth and well-being and discuss standard frameworks for assessing … and their macroeconomic repercussions. Fourth, we discuss the health toll and economic impacts of five infectious diseases … human toll and impose a staggering economic burden, early and targeted health and economic policy interventions can often …

depends on the expected benefits of vaccination. The analysis on health outcomes shows that the program reduces the likelihood …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

evidence from humans support claims of an adverse relationship between lead pollution and human health. Since lead exposure is … has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi …