suggest that PMTCT may have generated increases in knowledge about PMTCT and MTCT, large reductions in child mortality and …Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) is the single most effective HIV prevention intervention in …

Although a huge literature spanning several disciplines documents an association between poverty and child abuse … this paper, we address this seeming contradiction. Using county-level child abuse data spanning 1996 to 2009 from the … builds on family-time-use models and emphasizes differential risks of abuse associated with a child's time spent with …

sex ratio (males to females) in two generations -- those prenatally exposed and their children -- presumably through … heightened male mortality. This tendency toward female offspring is interpretable in light of the Trivers-Willard (1973 …

adults' willingness to pay for changes in child mortality and also to incorporate the welfare of future generations in the …This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of alcohol regulation on physical child abuse. Given the … child abuse. Data on violence come from the 1976 and 1985 Physical Violence in American Families surveys. We estimate a … structural model where violence is determined partly by consumption. Both equations are estimated separately for mothers and …