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 …

This paper explores the determinants of birthweight-specific neonatal mortality rates across States in the U.S. in 1980 … through the National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS). The NIMS links birth and death certificates for each state …, resulting in a data base with race-specific neonatal mortality rates by birthweight, and other characteristics. Using a reduced …

This paper argues that the secular decline in mortality, which began during the eighteenth century, is still in …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

paper proposes a method for recovering information about neonatal mortality.The approach utilizes average heights of young … children to predict the birth weight of American slaves. The results suggest that slave newborns weighed on average about 5 … weight distribution and a schedule of mortality by birth weight suggest that previous estimates of slave infant mortality are …

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 …

-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 …

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 …

to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …