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

eligibility during childhood on the later life mortality of black children at ages 15-18. The estimates indicate a 13-20 percent … the mortality of white children under the expansions … extended eligibility only to children born after September 30, 1983. This feature resulted in a large discontinuity in the …

specific infectious diseases affected older age mortality. Consistent with improvements in early life factors, we find that the … effect of quarter of birth on older age mortality has diminished over the twentieth century and that the declining impact of … quarter of birth explains 16 to 17 percent of the difference in ten year mortality rates of Americans age 60-79 in 1900 and in …

children born just prior to midnight have significantly shorter lengths of stay than those born just after midnight, despite … length on readmissions or mortality for either the infant or the mother, and the estimates are precise. The results suggest …

their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways … economy by examining the association of war wounds with the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US CivilWar (1861 …-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been severely wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming …

Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely … of parental deaths on the well-being of children who were age 9 through 17 years old at the time of the tsunami … children before and after the tsunami, models that include child fixed effects are estimated to isolate the causal effect of …

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 …

strongest among men with more urgent demand for children. Households treated with information on maternal risk experience a … demand for children generating a barrier to credible communication between spouses …