birth, and infant health. In the context of South Korea, I exploit rich spatial and temporal variation in cash transfers … selection into childbearing may explain the health effects and that cash transfers may increase birth weight for low …

risks analysis yields several striking results. 1) Females have only a 28% chance to die of cancer when they have children … unmarried males); 3) females with children have only a 34% risk to die of heart disease and 4) a 53% chance of dying from … infections (compared to females without children); 5) married men have an increased expectation of 23% to die of heart disease …

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 …

Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and … exert behavioural spillover effects on (i) a set of health behaviours, and (ii) on individuals not directly affected by the … bans. Drawing upon quasi-experimental evidence from Russia, which introduced a WSB (in addition to a ban on smoking in …

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in … West Africa, in Ghana and Nigeria. We observe children born before and after the creation of these dumps, and estimate a … mortality, for children living in the proximity of the site. Event studies suggest that the negative effects emerge 2-3 years …