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 …

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 …

We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and … for a major part of the fertility change characterizing the demographic transition. The change of mortality alone, however …, different measures of mortality, and the sample period. In addition, our causality tests suggest that fertility is both …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

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 …

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 …

malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub … the observed malnutrition and mortality outcomes. Secondly, to address unobserved but correlated factors, we exploit … information from GIS and malaria databases to construct variables that capture additional components of children's geographic …