deployment period. This is due to parents prioritizing quality over quantity: peacekeepers improve maternal and child health and …

globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade …

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature …

Africa's quest to achieving improved health status and meeting the Millennium Development Goals targets cannot be … the policy effectiveness that bring about improved health and living standards of the citizenry. In this paper, we study … the importance of leader characteristics and regime transitions on government's expenditure in health, and hence on infant …

that all of the sanitation and health benefits accrue from villages where resource agencies implemented the program, while …

examine a setting with large potential externality benefits: vaccination mandates for health care workers. I find that the … health care worker vaccination are particularly large. …

sparse information exists regarding the impact these smoking bans at the state and local levels have on the health of … children and infants. A rationale for expansion of smoke-free laws implicitly presumes that potential public health gains from … bans impact the venue of smoking, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county …