We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several … innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater levels of pollution. In contrast, the … experience of California in the 1990s is clearly relevant to current debates over the regulation of pollution. Second, many …

services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of … the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing … improvements in both maternal and infant health compared to the control rayons. Among the infant health outcomes, the MIHP impact …

explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the … first to consider whether there are any harmful effects for children who are not yet born when the separation occurs. I use … displacements on children's birth weights. These data allow for an identification strategy that essentially compares the outcomes of …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches … mortality and infant health and then consider how the estimated effects vary when the analysis is conducted at differing levels … downturns are associated with improved health. Further investigation reveals that county economic conditions have an independent …

of children from poorer families. …

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

The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average … height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection effect and a negative scarring effect …. Examining town-level panel data on the heights of school children I find no evidence for the selection effect but some support …

quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … various measures of child health. The results indicate that children exposed to higher concentrations of agrichemicals during …This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water …