The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks … delivery on various mortality rates among children born during 2002-2007. Our best estimates come from the parents fixed … welfare clinic boosts hospital delivery likelihood, which in turn tends to lower neo-natal, early and infant mortality rates …

for white mothers. At childbirth, heat-exposed mothers are more likely to have hypertension and have longer hospital stays …. For infants, fetal exposure to extreme heat leads to a higher likelihood of dehydration at birth and hospital readmission …

negative health consequences beyond birth outcomes; we document large increases in children's hospitalisations and medical …

This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills, as … skills (emotional stability, social skills) shows rather small effects on each type of skill. We find that both mothers and … fathers are important, but mothers are somewhat more important for cognitive skills and fathers for noncognitive ones …