the rest of the world. We find that the pollution content of export affected pollution and mortality. A one standard … deviation increase in PollutionExportShock increases infant mortality by 2.2 deaths per thousand live births, which is about 13 …% of the standard deviation of infant mortality change during the period. The dollar value of export expansion tends to …

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 …

civic participation, including voting and organizing. In the battle between democracy and dictatorship, democracy has a wide …Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal … potential base of support but offers weak incentives to its defenders. Dictatorship provides stronger incentives to a narrower …

/18, using published data on the measurement of approximately 890,000 recruits for the American Army for World War I. It also … connects those anthropometric measurements with an index of childhood mortality estimated from the censuses of 1900 and 1910 … primarily from the censuses of 1900 and 1910. The results indicate that early childhood mortality was a good (negative …

to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …

This paper examines whether increased background mortality risks induce households to make differential health … investments in their high- versus low-endowment children. We argue that increases in background mortality risks may … disproportionately affect the survival of the low-endowment sibling, consequently increasing the mortality gap between the high- and low …

on health, including infant mortality, life expectancy, and morbidity by age 20 …

health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … infant and child mortality on the other vanishes altogether if we look at the relationship between growth and the absolute … rate of decline in infant and child mortality. In effect, the correlation is between the level of infant mortality and the …

demographic methods of estimation and find infant and child mortality in the Hispanic population that was higher than for the non …-origin persons plus another 24,000 of their non-Hispanic neighbors. We estimate childhood mortality for 1890 to 1910, using indirect … California, Texas, and Arizona did the best, though still experiencing high mortality. The usual advantage of rural residence at …