This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where … contributing to these health gains …

impact on infant health at birth. We find evidence of reduced birth weight, shortened gestational length and even preterm … the causal chain underlying our finding on the adverse health impact of skyglow. Our study has important policy …

impact on infant health at birth. We find evidence of reduced birth weight, shortened gestational length and even preterm … the causal chain underlying our finding on the adverse health impact of skyglow. Our study has important policy …

child health inputs. It has been shown in this analysis that working mothers' children should be of better health status …Using traditional health capital model of Grossman (1972) and Wagstaff (1986) this paper attempts to fill in the …. Further independent of working status of the mother, the autonomy parameter always induces consumption of more health inputs …

-selection in India, we examine the impact of the ban on postnatal health outcomes. Using the observation that sex … worsens the relative health and mortality outcomes for children in firstborn female families. Second, we examine if the gender … consequences on surviving children. Exploiting the intertemporal variation in the implementation of a ban on sex-screening and sex …

creates positive selection in the health of the cohorts of children being born. I exploit the staggered timing of three … potential to reduce adverse infant health outcomes and could decrease the infant mortality gap which exists between the US and …

Health Surveys, the Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development and a database of hospital and clinic lo … South African children and other more advantaged South African children (first difference) born just before and just after … desegregation (second difference). As an alternate differences-in-differences we examine Black South African children born just …

positive selection in the health of the children being born. I use a family planning intervention which gave thousands of long …