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 …

century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health …

premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of serious adverse health outcomes compared to …

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 …

We investigate the impact of health aid on infant mortality conditional on the quality of governance in 96 recipient … donor government fractionalization interacted with the probability of allocating health aid to a recipient nation. The … effectiveness of health aid in reducing infant mortality is conditional on good governance (measured either as government …

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 …

We examine the multigenerational impacts of a nationwide social pension program in China, the New Rural Pension Scheme … inter-generational effect of NRPS on health among grandchildren. We find NRPS substantially increases child weight without …

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 …

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

This is a rejoinder to a comment written by Cutler and Miller on our recent paper, "Public Health Efforts and the …