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This paper attempts to identify the climatic effect on birth outcomes in Brazil and, thus, to predict the potential impact of climate change. Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects on newborns' health; temperature stresses and low...
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problems, for others in productivity loss, and some experience the worst possible outcome of alcohol misuse: death. This paper … estimates the effect of reduced alcohol sales hours on alcohol-attributable mortality (AAM) in Estonia. Using novel mortality … that individuals who are the most at risk of dying from alcohol-attributable death causes benefit remarkably from reduced …
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is most pronounced for infant mortality resulted from deviations in perinatal period and respiratory system failures. As … practices. -- Maternal health ; maternal mortality ; infant health ; infant mortality ; prenatal care …
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This paper examines the effects of high school curriculum reforms on infant health by exploiting sharp and staggered changes across states in core course requirements for graduation. Our results suggest that curriculum reforms significantly reduced the incidence of low birth weight and...
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creates positive selection in the health of the cohorts of children being born. I exploit the staggered timing of three …, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and homicide. Using a back-of-the-envelope calculation, I find that the Colorado program, which … potential to reduce adverse infant health outcomes and could decrease the infant mortality gap which exists between the US and …
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investments in children's health and improving the prenatal environment …
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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 …
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provided information, support and monitoring of infant care. Using birth certificate data from parish records matched to death … infant death (23% of baseline risk) and a 2.37% decline in the risk of dying by age 75 (6.5% of baseline risk). …
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provided information, support and monitoring of infant care. Using birth certificate data from parish records matched to death … infant death (23% of baseline risk) and a 2.37% decline in the risk of dying by age 75 (6.5% of baseline risk). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510011