infant outcomes once we implement a fixed effects approach that accounts for time-invariant factors common to mothers. While …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

assumes that children born to recent migrant mothers are more likely to die. The assumption is that migrant mothers do not … HIV AIDS pandemic is the risk factor associated to the mortality among children who have lost their mother. Our study also … demonstrated a persistent disadvantage of children born to migrant mothers irrespective the length of stay in the receiving zone …

delivery on various mortality rates among children born during 2002-2007. Our best estimates come from the parents fixed …The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks …, especially among vulnerable young adolescent mothers in Bangladesh. We exploit the exogenous variation in community's access to …

attributed to changes in the demographic composition of mothers. We next exploit county-level variation in the timing of these …

two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies – augmented with a …

This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where … significantly lower child mortality rates even among adolescent women. This offers an attractive policy option particularly when … effects of early childbirth on child mortality are reversed. The favourable effects of use of health inputs however continue …

first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in … average effects conceal underlying heterogeneity: we examine if the infant mortality effect offsets or reinforces one … genetic risk for developing heart disease. Put differently, in areas with the lowest infant mortality rates, the effect of one …

about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern … decisions are affected by different dimensions of mortality and technological progress which change endogenously during the …

, they have much higher fertility rates than natives (5.3 to 2.3). We examine the effect of Syrian refugees on the health … infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality—with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality.Our OLS results yield … suggestive evidence of a negative effect of the refugee shock on infant and child mortality. However, we find that this is a …