Despite the freely and publicly provided health care in Botswana, the proportion of low birth weight infants increased … Statistics Botswana, the paper jointly estimates the adequate prenatal care utilization (input demand) and infant birth weight … birth weight information is not available for all infants, we also estimate a Heckman sample selection model to account for …

The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In …Durch die Lotterie der Geburt wachsen manche Kinder in einem benachteiligten Umfeld auf und andere in einem Umfeld, in … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early …