fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973 …-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender gap in under-5 mortality rates, in line with surviving girls being more …

Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline …

We examine the effect of domestic violence on mortality of children born to female victims using Demographic and Health … violence and child mortality while controlling for potential confounds. We find that children of (ever) victimized mothers are … mortality using an instrumental variables strategy. Exploiting variation in domestic violence and marital rape laws across …