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 …

) 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 …

Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the … 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 …

Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro …-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of … population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a generalized aggregate production function that decomposes output into its …

This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health … aggregate fluctuations on maternal and infant mortality and low birth weight, with countercyclical though not significant … patterns for enrollment rates. Finally, provincial public expenditures on health and education are correlated with the …

We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region …, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large rural-urban mortality difference exists, but much more … so for boys than for girls. A higher education level of the mother reduces mortality risk, but the effect is stronger for …

the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in … endogenous variables across countries. The results suggest that differences in extrinsic mortality might explain a substantial …

This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis … and pandemic infant mortality during the 1957-58 outbreak. After Medicaid implementation, we find that better access to … insurance in high-eligibility states substantially reduced infant mortality during the 1968-69 pandemic. The reductions in …

health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying … to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …

This is a rejoinder to a comment written by Cutler and Miller on our recent paper, "Public Health Efforts and the … Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler and Miller to investigate the … determinants of the urban mortality decline from 1900 to 1936. Two main results emerge from our reanalysis of their data: (1 …