difficulties for women in terms of their being economically and socially empowered. At the same time, the infant mortality rate in … women's economic empowerment on infant mortality in Burkina Faso. It uses a linear probability model with instrumental …

children being born, reducing the rates of extremely preterm births and infant mortality. My most conservative estimates … deaths due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. This suggests that expanding contraceptive access could help close the infant … mortality gap between the U.S. and other leading economies. …

variation in contraceptive access to demonstrate that it reduced the rates of both extremely preterm births and infant mortality …