larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

most children. Hence, the last section of this chapter offers a brief review of what we know about the effects of …

This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Using a flexible approach and allowing for timevarying … treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run. The … substantially lower the mortality risk for women. The results for men point towards lower effectiveness likely due to stigma effects …

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consumption expenditure will help reduce child mortality rates in Ghana. In order to reduce child mortality rates among children …In this study, the causal nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption … running from fertility rate, food production index, GDP, and household final consumption expenditure to the mortality rate …

delivery on various mortality rates among children born during 2002-2007. Our best estimates come from the parents fixed …The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks … welfare clinic boosts hospital delivery likelihood, which in turn tends to lower neo-natal, early and infant mortality rates …

delivery on various mortality rates among children born during 2002-2007. Our best estimates come from the parents fixed …The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks … welfare clinic boosts hospital delivery likelihood, which in turn tends to lower neo-natal, early and infant mortality rates …

life expectancy of children born in the years and regions affected by the Phylloxera. The shock decreased long run height … affected regions were about 1.8 millimeters shorter than others. This estimate implies that children of wine-growing families … on health, including infant mortality, life expectancy, and morbidity by age 20 …