impact of Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the … war's timing across provinces and the exposure of children's birth cohorts to the fighting. After controlling for province … that children exposed to the war have on average 0.515 standard deviations lower height-for-age z-scores than non …

This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes, in a … this period, allowing the authors to assess the permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. The analysis controls … region of Northwestern Tanzania. The paper studies a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991-94, who were traced …

with the economic models of child health, it explores the relationship between altitude and child health within a … cluster through multilevel statistical modeling. After controlling for characteristics of the children, families, and … communities, the data show a significant nonlinear relationship between altitude and child nutritional status. Peruvian children …

for children in migrant households. These results provide a broader and more nuanced view of the health consequences of …The authors investigate the impact of international migration on child health outcomes in rural Mexico using a … to the United States in order to correct for the possible endogeneity of migrant status. They find that children in …

The effect of economic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. The authors use data from the … Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to analyze the impact of the profound 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru on infant mortality and … anthropometrics. They show that there was an increase in the infant mortality rate of about 2.5 percentage points for children born in …

Early life health and net nutrition shape childhood and adult cognitive skills and human capital. In poor countries … -- and especially in South Asia -- widespread open defecation without making use of a toilet or latrine is an important …

among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … villages in Madhya Pradesh to measure the effect of the program on toilet access, sanitation behavior, and child health … outcomes. The study analyzed a random sample of 3,039 households and 5,206 children under five years of age. Field staff …

This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey … improved sanitation and fixed-point defecation. There is a 47 percent reduction in diarrhea prevalence between children living …

The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education … in health, education, and the environment. Both estimates yield a figure in the range of $40-$70 billion in additional … health or education and related outcomes, or the relationship between investment and growth, the sensitivity of the results …

This paper analyzes the effects of all-weather rural roads on households' net output prices, education and health in a … health and education at least as highly as the 'commercial' ones. … hospital than in the nearest primary health clinic; and (iv) the respondents ranked the resulting benefits in the domains of …