The new millennium brought renewed attention to improving the health of women and children. In this same period, direct … living close to a conflict zone and acute malnutrition in Nigerian children in 2013. This is related to the severity of the … association with mortality is much less clear, with essentially no significant relationship to conflict detected using these data …

infrastructure in Turkey and on natives' mortality—with a focus on infant, child, and elderly mortality.Our OLS results yield … suggestive evidence of a negative effect of the refugee shock on infant and child mortality. However, we find that this is a … instrument, we find no evidence of an effect on native mortality for any age group. We also analyze the pressure that the …

document outcomes among individuals with deceased parents. I focus first on minors and find that about 2 million children in … orphan population in the United States. Relative to children with both parents living, these maternal and paternal orphans …

characterised by high infant mortality, but not by malnutrition. We show that although maternal education is important in … determining child health and mortality this effect diminishes or disappears when health knowledge is introduced as an explanatory … variable. It emerges that health knowledge has large and positive effects on both child mortality and health when instrumented …

causal impact of air quality on infant mortality across Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining detailed information on nearly 1 ….5 concentration driven by distant dust emission causes a 22% increase in infant mortality across our African sample (95% CI: 10 …-35%), an effect comparable to quasi-experimental pollution-infant mortality estimates from wealthier countries. We also show …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

causal impact of air quality on infant mortality across Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining detailed information on nearly 1 ….5 concentration driven by distant dust emission causes a 22% increase in infant mortality across our African sample (95% CI: 10 …-35%), an effect comparable to quasi-experimental pollution-infant mortality estimates from wealthier countries. We also show …