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 …

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 examine causal links between energy consumption and health indicators (Mortality rate under-5, life expectancy … Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. Our results show that health and energy consumption are … strongly linked in Africa. Unilateral causality is found from energy consumption to life expectancy and child under-5 mortality …

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 …

WWII on newborn health using a unique data set of historical birth records ranging from December 1937 to September 1941 …. Furthermore we investigate the heterogeneity of this effect with respect to health at birth and for different social groups. To … weight and asphyxia, perinatal mortality increases immediately after the onset of WWII. The mortality effect is driven by …

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 …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the … first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in … average effects conceal underlying heterogeneity: we examine if the infant mortality effect offsets or reinforces one …

Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the … first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond (1986) show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in … average effects conceal underlying heterogeneity: we examine if the infant mortality effect offsets or reinforces one …