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 …

health aid on health outcomes. After taking into account the endogeneity and using the instrumental variable approach, the … results reveal that health aid help improving health outcomes in sub-Saharan African countries. More specifically, for each … additional unit of health aid, life expectancy increases by 0.093, prevalence of HIV decrease by 0.063, child mortality decrease …