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with it. In addition, inequality of opportunity is strongly correlated with child and maternal mortality and other measures …
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two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies - augmented with a …
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This study explores how aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts agricultural productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected over approximately 4,000 grid cells of 0.5 x 0.5 in...
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This study shows how soil aridity (proxied with a measure of soil potential evapotranspiration) impacts child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using climate and infant health data from a grid of approximately 4,000 cells in 34 African countries, we find that infants born in arid areas are...
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We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th … interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality penalty. Estimates suggest that a unit decrease in mortality rates … that individuals from lower socio economic groups had marginal effects of reduced infant mortality twice as large as those …
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. I find that infant mortality at birth is positively related to hypertension, even allowing for cohort effects, and …
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Using the Irish experience of the Spanish flu, we demonstrate that pandemic mortality statistics are sensitive to the …-19 mortality statistics must go through a similar procedure so policymakers can better target their public health …
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