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 … region of Northwestern Tanzania. The paper studies a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991-94, who were traced … this period, allowing the authors to assess the permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. The analysis controls …

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 …

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 …

health status, or lower educational attainment among girls. This study focuses on one measure of son preference in the … developing world, namely the likelihood of continued childbearing given the gender composition of existing children in the family … that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of …

. However, in a neighborhood of plausible estimates, differential fertility-whereby poorer people tend also to have higher birth …