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 …

. A natural question is whether further reductions will yield additional health benefits. We further this research by … air pollution levels, and (2) what is the impact of modern air pollution levels on infant health? Our setting is … suggest that ambient pollution levels, specifically particulate matter, still have large impacts on weekly infant mortality …

birth weight and gestational age of the newborns of these mothers. An increase in earnings does not influence the health of …

are much smaller than levels implied by health planners' typical valuations of child mortality, consistent with models in … investment. This paper uses a randomized evaluation in Kenya to measure the health impacts of investments to improve source water … which the demand for health is highly income elastic. Simulations suggest that, at current income levels, private property …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food … that the FSP rollout leads to small, but statistically insignificant, improvements in neonatal infant mortality. We …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …

We examine the effects of total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution on infant health using the air quality … instrumental variable for TSPs changes to estimate their impact on infant mortality changes in the first year that the 1970 CAAA … was in force. TSPs nonattainment status is associated with sharp reductions in both TSPs pollution and infant mortality …