of new epidemic outbreaks, motivated public investments aimed at reducing mortality from infectious disease. Combining … longitudinal individual-level data on 17,000 children in a rural/semi-urban region in southern Sweden with parish-level data on … establishment of isolation hospitals and improved midwifery, on infant and child mortality. Using a difference …

adult mortality. These programs disproportionately improve health outcomes among the poorest children and, within that group …, among children affected by adult mortality. In Tanzania there is so much poverty and child health indicators are so low that …January 2000 - In Tanzania, a poor country experiencing a severe AIDS epidemic, the children whose health is hit …

that wealth still has a significant influence on adequate use of Antenatal care. Education, age, number of living children …

This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school … administrative data on schooling and birth records from Chile and Norway, we establish that children who receive extra medical care … at birth have lower mortality rates and higher test scores and grades in school. These gains are in the order of 0 …