This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 … characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the health consequences of rising temperature and relative humidity and …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children …

This chapter provides an overview of the literature on child health in developed countries. I first lay out a simple … economic model of the demand for child health inputs, and discuss whether the evidence is consistent with that model. Next, two … main causes of market failure in the market for child health inputs — lack of information and externalities — are analyzed …

Empirical studies on health at a disaggregate level—by socioeconomic group or geographic location—can provide useful … information for designing poverty-focused interventions. Using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, Wang investigates the … determinants of health outcomes in low-income countries both at the national level, and for rural and urban areas separately. DHS …