Environmental pollution adversely affects children’s probability to survive to adulthood, reduces thus parental … inequality and pollution on children’s health may be amplified, if the population group that is least affected decides about tax … the concentration of pollutants at the local level, and (2) the humpshaped evolution of child mortality ratios between …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human … provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care-arrangements. …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. …

for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …

This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is … achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a “value of life” type of framework. We are able to express … adults’ willingness to pay for changes in child mortality and also to incorporate the welfare of future generations in the …

cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

. First, we document the magnitude of rural-urban disparities in child nutritional status and under-five mortality across all … entirely mirror the gap in under-five mortality. The most striking difference between the two is in the Latin American and … Caribbean region, where the gap in stunting is more than 1.5 times higher than that in mortality. On average, the rural …

is most pronounced for infant mortality resulted from deviations in perinatal period and respiratory system failures. As …

transitions. The model captures the intricate interplay between technological progress, mortality, fertility and economic growth … demographic observation that fertility rates response with a delay to lower child mortality. It also identi es a number of turning … relationship between child mortality and net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the course of their demographic …