countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

a public health crisis. Using the Flint Water Crisis as a natural experiment, we estimate the effect of in utero … exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data, we use a …. Finally, we find no notable change in the fertility rates of either black women or white women in Flint. These results are …

The empirical evidence on the inter-generational effects of maternal health interventions is inconclusive, particularly … Suraksha Yojana (JSY) which is a agship health and safe motherhood program. We exploit plausible exogenous variation in …

Introduction: The World Health Report 2006 defined 'availability', 'competence', 'responsiveness' and 'productivity' as … the key dimensions of the health workforce (HWF) performance framework. Since then, new goals have been set to address … population health needs by optimizing HWF performance and quality. The aim of this scoping review is to identify aspects of HWF …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the …-employment in terms of health. In addition to variation in work status of each individual over time, we also consider variation … driven by a number of novel instrumental variables. We also focus on an objective health outcome -hospital admissions- that …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

This paper studies the extent to which sleep duration causally affects health, cognitive and noncognitive development … sleeping longer improves selected general developmental, behavioural and health outcomes in children and adolescents. By …

This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the increase in fertility was lower in high … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …