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

last two decades, this paper re-examines the relationship between governance, health expenditure, and maternal mortality … study reveals that a one-point improvement in governance index decreases maternal mortality by 8-10%. We also find that good …

attempts to quantify these developments in mortality and especially morbidity. The paper provides an outline of an original … morbidity and mortality have provided a considerable contribution to the growth of GDP per capita when defined on a utility … possible to conclude that improvements in health have been substantial. These findings seem sensible since mortality and …

methods to provide both central estimates and bounds on the effect of health insurance on health and mortality among the near … average effect of uninsurance on mortality and health is plausible, some selection effects that might explain our full results …

three very different shocks to early-life conditions: (1) exposure to disease and vaccination, studied through the case of … them.For the case of disease and vaccination, the results show that there was no evidence that exposure during early life …

We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take … vaccination rate for individuals aged less than 65. We show that this effect is not entirely driven by an income channel, but also … depends on the expected benefits of vaccination. The analysis on health outcomes shows that the program reduces the likelihood …

experiment, I estimate the impacts of aggregate vaccination rates on mortality and work absences in the United States. Second, I …Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few estimates of their … magnitudes. I estimate social and externality benefits of influenza vaccination in two settings. First, using a natural …

We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take … design around the threshold at age 65. We find that the program increases vaccination take-up by 6 percentage points, which …