productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected … crop yields and child health imputed to precipitations alone. The findings are applied to model projections of future …

in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using climate and infant health data from a grid of approximately 4,000 cells in 34 African …

with it. In addition, inequality of opportunity is strongly correlated with child and maternal mortality and other measures …

We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th … century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health … interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality penalty. Estimates suggest that a unit decrease in mortality rates …

Early life conditions have been linked to various domains of later life health, including cardiovascular outcomes … health are related to hypertension, although there is cross country heterogeneity in these effects. I account for potential … omitted variable bias by using aggregate measures of public health at birth, which are plausibly exogenous to the individual …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …