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Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates : Evidence from Argentina's Downturns
Cruces, Guillermo - 2011
This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118519
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Poverty and Survival
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135179
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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality : Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and Their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317283
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Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality
Pham, Thong - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124470
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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development
Cervellati, Matteo - 2013
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086663
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076150
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The Value of Health Insurance During a Crisis : Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality
Clay, Karen - 2020
This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis combines cross-state variation in mandated eligibility for Medicaid with two influenza pandemics — the 1957-58 "Asian Flu" pandemic and the 1968-69 "Hong Kong Flu" — that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835240
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Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality
Anderson, D. Mark - 2018
Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900-1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying interventions such as treating sewage and setting strict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911188
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Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality : Reply to Cutler and Miller
Anderson, D. Mark - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894065
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Assessing the Effect of Mother's Migration on Childhood Mortality in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi
Konseiga, Adama - 2010
Between one and two million migrants reside in cramped conditions in Nairobi's slums without proper access to sanitation or affordable clean water. Children in such areas are exposed to enormous risks, health risks in particular. Using longitudinal data collected every four months during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760631