Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead …, extensive research links elevated blood lead levels in children to academic and behavioral outcomes, but more limited attention … has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi …

This paper relies on birth and death lists from plantation records to investigate the causes of low birth weight and … poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

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 …

We use linked administrative data that combines the universe of California birth records, hospitalizations, and death …-monotonically with parental income, and that children of parents in the top ventile of the income distribution have higher rates of low … birth weight and preterm birth than those in the bottom ventile. However, unlike birth outcomes, infant mortality varies …

employ Social Security Administration death records linked with the full-count 1940 census and implement event studies and … suggest the effects are more pronounced among children raised in farm households, females, and those with lower maternal …

In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while … others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials … on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 …

Child injury mortality rates have declined steadily over time and across causes of death. This paper investigates … alternative explanations for this decline and evaluates their value. I assess changes in children's living circumstances, changes … Mortality Detail Files on the number of child deaths by age, cause, and state and combine this information with data from the …

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 …

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 …