mother during pregnancy is a potential determinant of neonatal and infant mortality in Japan, with increased consumption of … mortality production functions, we note that increases in the prices of food items, in particular milk and meat, would lead to … increases in neonatal and infant mortality rates. We discover that the availability of abortion in Japan, unlike in the U.S., is …

young child feeding practices for the nutrition of their children. … linkages between infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices and children's nutritional status in Democratic Republic of … determinant of children's nutritional status as measured by the height-for-age z-score and the probability of stunting. In …

. First, we document the magnitude of rural-urban disparities in child nutritional status and under-five mortality across all … entirely mirror the gap in under-five mortality. The most striking difference between the two is in the Latin American and … Caribbean region, where the gap in stunting is more than 1.5 times higher than that in mortality. On average, the rural …

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children …