This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia … that never used the improved stove. This is a substantial effect with implications for greater health and well … children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …

fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973 …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more …

"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of … health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …, focusing on grandparents who are older and may be less able to financially support orphans than working-age adults. However …