We study the effects of the cancellation of a sizeable child benefit in Spain on birth timing and neonatal health. In … important in shaping economic decisions and outcomes. They also provide new, credible evidence highlighting the negative health …

,000 deaths. Combining birth history data drawn from the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey with prefecture … children who were only exposed while in utero. This evidence points to the existence of long-term disruptive effects on the … cohorts of children exposed to the violence. …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … municipalities, saving 861 children/year. The decline is driven mainly by deaths due to preventable causes, such as diarrhea and …

productivity and child wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate conditions, crop yield, and infant health measures are collected … crop yields and child health imputed to precipitations alone. The findings are applied to model projections of future …

in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using climate and infant health data from a grid of approximately 4,000 cells in 34 African …

larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses …

low birth weight and acute asthma attacks among children by 1.9 and 8.0 percent, respectively. These health impacts occur …Car exhaust is a major source of air pollution, but little is known about its impacts on population health. We exploit … - across the United States from 2008-2015 as a natural experiment to measure the health impact of car pollution. Using the …

The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average … century. -- Heights of children ; infant mortality ; health in Britain … height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection effect and a negative scarring effect …