-demographic literature emphasizes differential fertility channel, this paper investigates differential child mortality - differences in child … mortality across income groups - as a critical link through which income inequality persists. Using an overlapping generations … model in which both child mortality and fertility are endogenously determined by parental choice, this paper demonstrates …

-level data for the period 1880-1910, we explore the effects of milk inspections on infant mortality and mortality among children …-treatment reductions in either infant or child mortality. …

Has massive distribution of insecticide-treated-nets contributed to the reduction in in- fant mortality in Sub … contrast, in highly malarious rural areas where bednet coverage reached high levels, above 75% of households, infant mortality … has been reduced by at least 3 percentage points, which amounts to 25% of the initial mortality. The identified impact is …

the Decline in Urban Mortality” (NBER WP No. 25027), in which we examine the effect of water filtration on infant and … total mortality using the same data as were used by CM (2005). Two main results emerge from our reanalysis of the CM data …: (1) correcting their infant mortality counts reduces the estimated effect of filtration by two-thirds, from -43 log …

Has massive distribution of insecticide-treated-nets contributed to the reduction in infant mortality in Sub … contrast, in highly malarious rural areas where bednet coverage reached high levels, above 75% of households, infant mortality … has been reduced by at least 3 percentage points, which amounts to 25% of the initial mortality. The identified impact is …

. Both demographic changes relate to the finding that unlike in other countries, democracy does not reduce child mortality in …

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in …

estimate that by themselves these infant mortality benefits generated a welfare gain of more than $7 billion (2005$) for 1965 …