findings demonstrate causal effects of early life health on economic mobility and the importance of an investment …

public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

Historically, improvements in municipal water quality reduced mortality substantially in wealthy countries. However …% within 18 months. On average, the program reduced childhood diarrheal disease mortality rates by 50%. However, age …

public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

indicated by her height, BMI and anemia status. Child health is indicated by mortality risk and anthropometric failure. We find …This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and …

Interventions that improve childhood health directly improve the quality of life and, in addition, have multiplier … health. To support a justice argument for such modification, we show how the current global economic order may contribute to … perpetuating poverty and poor health in less-developed countries. …

our finding that African Americans experienced larger absolute reductions in pneumonia mortality after the arrival of …

We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens … have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We … use administrative data on judicial claims for health as a proxy for unmet demand. We validate this using the register …

and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive, socio-emotional and health domains, and we show that this contributes …

health capital. Individuals exposed to the war at all ages between birth and adolescence exhibit reduced adult stature and …