This paper examines empirically whether midwifes, as an integral part of the health and family planning programs in …

This paper studies the impact of the mothers’ indirect exposure to homicides on newborns’ health outcomes. To do so, I … cofounding effects of income and nutrition are found. This research is one of the first to analyze the indirect effects of … violent crimes on newborns’ health and it appeals for health policies targeted to address the stress during pregnancy …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

health campaigns. Focusing on shared religious affiliation as a signal of proximity, we implemented a field experiment during …

Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …

fertility decisions and investments in child health. We find that increased access to paved roads at the district-level leads to … districts with erstwhile lower levels of FLFP, the effects on fertility and child health are driven by paved road access causing …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to changes in education, income … large sample of comparable data that exhibits massive variation in maternal and child health as well as in aggregate … economic conditions. Child health is indicated by infant survival. Our measure of maternal health is (relative) height …

families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are … less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor elder parent health has less impact on the probability of …