Background Burkina Faso has recently instituted a free healthcare policy for women and children under five. This … for children, and other exempted (antenatal, postnatal, etc.) services on household expenditures. Results The findings … reduced mortality from severe malaria in children under the age of five years. It also has increased the use of health …

, our estimation for Mexico and Canada suggests more severe informational frictions in emerging markets than in developed … transitory components of TFP shocks and learn about those components using the Kalman filter. Calibrated to Mexico, the model …