On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the … nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid … urbanization taking place throughout the developing world and in targeting resources appropriately to raise population health. We …

,000 deaths. Combining birth history data drawn from the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey with prefecture … children who were only exposed while in utero. This evidence points to the existence of long-term disruptive effects on the … cohorts of children exposed to the violence. …

the health status of children. Obviously, quantifying the health impact of such a crisis is a serious task given the lack …-in-difference estimator is used to quantify the impact of the food crisis on the health status of children. The findings suggest that at least …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … municipalities, saving 861 children/year. The decline is driven mainly by deaths due to preventable causes, such as diarrhea and …

productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected … crop yields and child health imputed to precipitations alone. The findings are applied to model projections of future …

. Based on it, we designed the agriculture-household model, which predicts that health outcomes of child is dependent on …