We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient … donor government fractionalization interacted with the probability of allocating health aid to a recipient nation. The … effectiveness of health aid in reducing infant mortality is conditional on good governance (measured either as government …

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 …

We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal … driving mechanisms. We find sharp increases in coverage of primary health facilities with GPs and outreach workers and, in … line with this, increases in outpatient procedures, prenatal care visits, health-education activities and home visits by …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … important implications for the ongoing health insurance expansions. …

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 …

We investigate the impact of early-life medical interventions on low-risk newborn health. A policy rule in The …, we find no health benefits from additional treatments for average newborns. However, there is substantial heterogeneity … in returns to treatments with significant health benefits for newborns in the lowest income quartile and no benefits in …

century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health … at the top. -- Childhood health ; disability …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data …

, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications. …

services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of … the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing … improvements in both maternal and infant health compared to the control rayons. Among the infant health outcomes, the MIHP impact …