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 …

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 …

"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 …