Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact … that the continent's countries remain mired in a Malthusian crisis of high mortality, high fertility, and rapid population …, econometric estimation is complicated by endogeneity among fertility and other variables of interest. We attempt to improve …

This paper examines the impact of New Deal relief programs on infant mortality, noninfant mortality and general … fertility rates in major U.S. cities between 1929 and 1940. We estimate the effects using a variety of specifications and … relief spending during the New Deal contributed to reductions in infant mortality, suicide rates, and some other causes of …

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 …