crises' impact on real per capita GDP, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty headcounts, and calorie supply per capita …

decrease child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. There is, however, widespread concern that poor governance and in particular …

Child injury mortality rates have declined steadily over time and across causes of death. This paper investigates … Mortality Detail Files on the number of child deaths by age, cause, and state and combine this information with data from the … producing health. These results provide a first effort in understanding the dramatic reduction in child injury mortality. They …

mortality rates among large counties of the U.S. in 1977. After estimating cross-sectional regressions, we apply their … coefficients to national trends in the exogenous variables to "explain" the rapid decline in neonatal mortality since 1964. The … schooling levels, and to a lesser extent Medicaid, BCHS projects, and WIC in trends in black neonatal mortality between 1964 and …

causal impact of air quality on infant mortality across Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining detailed information on nearly 1 ….5 concentration driven by distant dust emission causes a 22% increase in infant mortality across our African sample (95% CI: 10 …-35%), an effect comparable to quasi-experimental pollution-infant mortality estimates from wealthier countries. We also show …

to the observed declines in total and infant mortality …

Using weekly mortality data for London spanning 1866-1965, we analyze the changing relationship between temperature and … mortality as the city developed. Our results show that both warm and cold weeks were associated with elevated mortality in the …. The resulting change in the temperature-mortality relationship meant that thousands of heat-related deaths-equal to 0 …

This paper studies how better access to public health insurance affects infant mortality during pandemics. Our analysis … and pandemic infant mortality during the 1957-58 outbreak. After Medicaid implementation, we find that better access to … insurance in high-eligibility states substantially reduced infant mortality during the 1968-69 pandemic. The reductions in …