positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …

This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school … administrative data on schooling and birth records from Chile and Norway, we establish that children who receive extra medical care … at birth have lower mortality rates and higher test scores and grades in school. These gains are in the order of 0 …

late childhood. We estimate that a one standard deviation reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality rates results in about …