systematic fashion. Using newly digitized mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900-1917, we explore the … requirement was associated with a 6 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality, while the opening of a state-run sanatorium was … associated with an almost 4 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality. However, these and other anti-TB measures can explain, at …

significant and substantively strong association with lower infant mortality. Most other political factors are found to be …

unfinished sewerage infrastructure on early-life mortality in Peru. I compile several sources of administrative panel data for 1 … that unfinished sewerage projects increased early-life mortality, driven by lack of water availability, water … decrease early-life mortality, in line with public health studies in advanced economies during the previous centuries. …

redistribution or total spending. Based on comprehensive archival mortality statistics since 1890, I then demonstrate that the … observed shifts in representation and public finances were associated with substantial declines in child mortality by 15% and … in mortality from infectious diseases, the major killer of the time, by 10-15%. …

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 …