This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and …

poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …

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 …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water … quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations …

and baseline city health conditions also contributed to pandemic severity. The effects of air pollution are quantitatively … between air pollution and infectious disease on health, and suggest that there may be large co-benefits associated with …

This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and …

While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patient´s demand for health services, and that …