mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … 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 …

importance in the Bangladeshi diet; and the impact of observed consumption patterns on mortality and resistance to infectious … diseases for children in their first years of life. Better maternal education and family economic status significantly increase … than fish for child health. In addition, mothers' individual preferences for different animal-source foods, and the …

cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …

Garcia Moreno Esteva -- Levels and causes of maternal mortality and morbidity / Veronique Filippi, Doris Chou, Carine … Ronsmans, Wendy Graham, and Lale Say -- Levels and causes of mortality under age five years / Li Liu, Kenneth Hill, Shefali Oza … morbidity and mortality / A. Metin Guilmezoglu, Theresa A. Lawrie, Natasha Hezelgrave, Olufemi T. Oladapo, Joao Paulo Souza …

Bangladesh Demographic Health Surveys. A U-shaped association between drinking water salinity and infant and neonatal mortality … is found, suggesting higher mortality when salinity is very low or high. With fresh drinking water, the marginal effect … pregnancy. Severe salinity needs to be addressed if the recent gains in infant and neonatal mortality are to be sustained …

. However, the social effects of debt relief are not well known. The paper employs micro data on infant mortality from 56 … on child health. The retrospective fertility structure of the data allows for analysis using the within-mother variation … interim debt relief, the probability of infant mortality goes down by about 0.5 percentage point. This translates into about 3 …

This article investigates the effect increasing secondary education opportunities has on teenage fertility in Brazil … between 1997 and 2009, the analysis shows an important role of secondary school availability on underage fertility. An …

Since the 1990s, India has seen robust economic growth, rising wages, steady fertility decline, increased urbanization … to examine the effects of having a young child on mothers' employment in urban India over 1983-2011. The analysis also … depresses mothers' employment, an inverse relationship that has intensified over time. Further, living in a household with older …

Lao PDR has made notable progress in improving maternal health, with materanal mortality decreasing from 1,600 per 100 … children under-five were replaced with case-based payments paid by or through the government or donors, for essential MCH …