impact on infant health at birth. We find evidence of reduced birth weight, shortened gestational length and even preterm … the causal chain underlying our finding on the adverse health impact of skyglow. Our study has important policy …

low birth weight and acute asthma attacks among children by 1.9 and 8.0 percent, respectively. These health impacts occur …Car exhaust is a major source of air pollution, but little is known about its impacts on population health. We exploit … - across the United States from 2008-2015 as a natural experiment to measure the health impact of car pollution. Using the …

, adaptation policies can foster neonatal health and thus have positive long-run implications …

There are growing concerns about the impact of pollution on maternal and infant health. In the UK in 2018, 36% of local … authorities had levels of PM2.5 where exposure exceeded the annual level recommended by the World Health Organisation at the time … reducing pollution remains an urgent public health priority, our results imply that improvements in short-run levels of …

inter-generational effect of NRPS on health among grandchildren. We find NRPS substantially increases child weight without …

The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average … height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection effect and a negative scarring effect …. Examining town-level panel data on the heights of school children I find no evidence for the selection effect but some support …

quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … various measures of child health. The results indicate that children exposed to higher concentrations of agrichemicals during …This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water …

services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of … the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing … improvements in both maternal and infant health compared to the control rayons. Among the infant health outcomes, the MIHP impact …

century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health …