This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school … at birth have lower mortality rates and higher test scores and grades in school. These gains are in the order of 0 …

This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …

We use the high IQ Terman sample to estimate relationships between education, socioemotional skills, and health … subjects, education is linked to better health-related outcomes, in contrast to previous evidence. Conscientiousness, Openness …

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0 7.8% of the overall fertility decline until … infant mortality. The effect of birth control clinics on puerperal deaths is consistently negative, yet insignificant …

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission …

The demographic transition the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality … and increasing speed of transitions. It also produces a strong correlation between the speeds of fertility transition and …