for male children, the same cultural norm widely known to cause excess mortality before birth or at young ages. Using …This paper is the first to show that excess mortality among adult women can be partly explained by strong preference … adult mortality is higher for women with first-born girls, especially the poor and uneducated with limited access to health …

cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the … importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother?s education and age, household wealth, and child birth order. However, the …

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 …

mortality on children?s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … mortality risk is higher among malnourished children, selective mortality has only a minor impact on the measured nutritional … scenario that all children who died in the first three years of life were alive at the time of measurement. The simulations …

. 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 …

factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into … reflected in the intake of nutrients such as protein, calcium, and iron for children's physical growth. Vitamins A and C are … important for reducing morbidity. Children's growth and morbidity affect their cognitive development, which is critical for the …

. Children who are most at risk of experiencing poor feeding include those who are born small, have younger mothers, and live in … that initiatives to end undernutrition in the region should focus on improving the diets of young children. This review of …

reduces the mortality risk for children under the age of five by about 5-20 percent. The effects seem largest for modern … sanitation on child mortality and morbidity. The results show a robust association between access to water and sanitation … technologies and both child morbidity and child mortality. The point estimates imply, depending on the technology level and the sub …

find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that … in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. The authors review existing evidence and provide new evidence on … whether, under the economic liberalization program known as Doi Moi, this reduction in child mortality has been sustained …

adverse social context for women. It is seen as the cause of lower social and economic achievement for mothers and their … children, and as the potential determinant of inter-generational poverty traps. However, the question of whether pregnancy … opportunities of the young mothers. Actually, women who gave birth during their adolescence have on average 0.34 more years of …