.First, we show evidence for an unexpected increase in fecundity and sexual activity due to the better health environment after …

health, including mental health. Three major findings come forward from this work. First, disasters appear to bring …, education, health and many income-generating processes. Furthermore, some of these detrimental effects are both large and long … of improving our understanding of the impacts of disasters on health outcomes, the mechanisms of transmission and the …

This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel … paternal unemployment reduces child health, while maternal unemployment has beneficial child health impacts. Analysis of … certain health investments, including children's diets. Our results support the notion that traditional gender roles can …

adolescent childbearing is of particular concern. We argue that effective use of specific health inputs could however … to use health inputs differently from all other women. After correcting for this possible selectivity bias, the adverse … effects of early childbirth on child mortality are reversed. The favourable effects of use of health inputs however continue …

inter-generational effect of NRPS on health among grandchildren. We find NRPS substantially increases child weight without …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

The poor state of child health in India has generated a number of puzzles that have received attention in the …-life survival advantage in India accruing to later birth orders, which they interpret as the result of a pattern of improving … set of demographic surveys, a disadvantage in child height for later birth orders in India relative to Africa's birth …

disproportionately concentrated in India. We identify a large effect of birth order on neonatal mortality that is unique to India: later …-born siblings have a steep survival advantage relative to the birth order gradient in other developing countries. We show that India …

specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health …There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor … countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What …