This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in … mortality, for children living in the proximity of the site. Event studies suggest that the negative effects emerge 2-3 years …

We show that ethnic distances can explain the ethnic inequalities in child mortality rates in Africa. Using individual … fractionalization re ects a higher stock of knowledge and information leading to better health outcomes. Knowledge does not ow smoothly …

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

health outcomes using cross sectional and panel datasets of 156 countries from 1970 to 2015. This study uses three dimensions … expectancy and lowering infant mortality. Moreover, the results show that state capacity in terms of "ability" has the largest … impact on health outcomes while in terms of "position" its effect is limited. Findings of the study are robust to different …