the increasing importance of non-wage benefits in total compensation packages. As hedonic wage theory suggests, mothers … might view health benefits as desirable and trade-off wages for health insurance. Thus, lower wages for mothers might …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca …

the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs … significantly, disadvantaged American children living in much more challenging circumstances, and the role of public policy not as …

paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the … duration model developed in this paper is a useful tool when analyzing a wide-range of single-spell durations where individual …

from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. …

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during …. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the first evidence suggesting long-run effects of early nutritional stresses on mortality …

from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions … in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel …