children are choice-based, reflecting prior selective fertility and mortality behavior. Parameter identification is the most …This paper estimates the determinants of child mortality and child health allowing for the possibility that samples of … serious practical problem in controlling for fertility and mortality selection. Identification is achieved by imposing a …

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …

This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Using a flexible approach and allowing for timevarying … treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run. The … substantially lower the mortality risk for women. The results for men point towards lower effectiveness likely due to stigma effects …

paper studies the effects of the program on neonatal mortality using district-level household survey data. We model … mortality using survival analysis, paying special attention to substantial heaping, a form of measurement error, present in the … different heaping mechanisms. Our empirical findings do not suggest a significant reduction of mortality in treated districts …

paper studies the effects of the program on neonatal mortality using district-level household survey data. We model … mortality using survival analysis, paying special attention to the substantial heaping present in the data. The main objective … estimator and provide a simple procedure to test whether the policy had (uniformly) reduced mortality. While our empirical …

consumption expenditure will help reduce child mortality rates in Ghana. In order to reduce child mortality rates among children …In this study, the causal nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption … running from fertility rate, food production index, GDP, and household final consumption expenditure to the mortality rate …

several health outcomes and find that, in general, increased openness is associated with lower rates of infant mortality and …

Emergency Transportation System (NETS) on neonatal and infant mortality and long-term impairments. We utilize gradual expansion …, using changing distance as an instrument. Improving access to delivering in a city with a NICU decreases 0-6-day mortality …