own and their children's survival in future periods. Women update their beliefs with survival to each additional period as …

children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia … in height-for-age of young children exposed during their first years of life, compared with a control group of households …

among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … villages in Madhya Pradesh to measure the effect of the program on toilet access, sanitation behavior, and child health … outcomes. The study analyzed a random sample of 3,039 households and 5,206 children under five years of age. Field staff …

Health care access is a challenge in rural areas in Africa. On the demand side, rural people are often poor, and … health care services provided is also often compromised. In Madagascar, the poor condition of the road network has long … hampered the sustainability of the medical supply chain in rural areas. The paper shows that people's demand for health care …

increase in private health investments …

this variation (differential population characteristics, differential health worker characteristics, and differential … development policy evaluations and, specifically, for the ability of the health system to benefit from limited non-state capacity …

Hygiene information and practices play a critical role in preventing diseases, particularly among children. Hygiene … presence of household communication assets to explore potential effects on children?s socio-emotional scores. In the presence … of contamination biases, the study exploited the longitudinal sample of children in the surveys to reduce time …

implemented in this study, is not effective in improving the health or education of school children. Possible reasons for the …This paper investigates the effects of intermittent screening and treatment of malaria on the health and education of … school children in an area of low-to-moderate malaria transmission. A cluster randomized trial was implemented with 5 …

This study examines the effect of performance incentives for health care providers to provide more and higher quality … care in Rwanda on child health outcomes. The authors find that the incentives had a large and significant effect on the … weight-for-age of children 0-11 months and on the height-for-age of children 24-49 months. They attribute this improvement to …