health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying … to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …

health improvements, which we estimate at 1.82 years of quality-adjusted life. However, these were roughly offset by … health by way of behavioral improvements and public health are possible …

Mortality rates in the US fell more rapidly during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries than any other period in … American history. This decline coincided with an epidemiological transition and the disappearance of a mortality "penalty … mortality in major cities during the early 20th Century. Plausibly exogenous variation in the timing and location of technology …

In 2006, Massachusetts passed health care reform legislation designed to achieve nearly universal coverage through a … from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we provide evidence that health care reform in Massachusetts led to … better overall self-assessed health. Various robustness checks and placebo tests support a causal interpretation of the …

We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries …. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries … of health care over this period. The most recent DHS survey for each country collected data on HIV prevalence, which …

on health, including infant mortality, life expectancy, and morbidity by age 20 …This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in … regional variation in the timing of this shock to identify its effects. We examine the effects on the adult height, health, and …

health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … hope that economic growth will improve people's health as well as their material living conditions. I argue that the … poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …

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

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 … estimation (particularly of the effect of the child mortality variable) by deploying exogenous variation in the ecology of …