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Accurate estimation of air quality impacts on health outcomes is critical for guiding policy choices to mitigate such … damages. Estimation poses an empirical challenge, however, because local economic activity can simultaneously generate changes … causal impact of air quality on infant mortality across Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining detailed information on nearly 1 …
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Fertility decisions are often made by partners who may disagree. We develop a model in which conflicting interests … to further widen the spousal disagreement over fertility in environments where maternal health risk is high and … strongest among men with more urgent demand for children. Households treated with information on maternal risk experience a …
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The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century. We argue that medical progress played a critical role in this process. Improved maternal health alleviated the adverse effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to...
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This paper examines the impact of New Deal relief programs on infant mortality, noninfant mortality and general … fertility rates in major U.S. cities between 1929 and 1940. We estimate the effects using a variety of specifications and … relief spending during the New Deal contributed to reductions in infant mortality, suicide rates, and some other causes of …
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Much of Africa has not yet gone through a quot;demographic transitionquot; to reduced mortality and fertility rates …. The fact that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid …, econometric estimation is complicated by endogeneity among fertility and other variables of interest. We attempt to improve …
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poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …
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Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the … food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns …
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Previous research suggests that restricting the availability of abortion reduces average birth weight by increasing the number of unhealthy fetuses that are carried to term. In this paper we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to ask whether restrictions on Medicaid funding...
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This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to … post-neonatal mortality. These health improvements are attributable both to selection (differences in the type of mothers … constrained (and therefore opt out of fertility in times of high unemployment) …
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-infant mortality, and fertility. For 111 cities for which data on relief spending during the 1930s were available, we collected annual …s. A five-equation structural model is estimated that tests the effect of the relief spending on infant mortality, non … sales, which serve as a proxy for the level of economic activity. Relief spending directly lowered infant mortality rates to …
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