This paper analyzes the effects of a multilateral debt relief program on child health. The International Monetary Fund … country-specific Demographic and Health Surveys to investigate the effects of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative … on child health. The retrospective fertility structure of the data allows for analysis using the within-mother variation …

Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHO's threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records … from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses on the socioeconomic determinants … diseases for children in their first years of life. Better maternal education and family economic status significantly increase …

.6 years post-intervention. The intervention had no effect on diarrhea and no effect on length-for-age Z-scores in children …

The effect of economic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. The authors use data from the … Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to analyze the impact of the profound 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru on infant mortality and … anthropometrics. They show that there was an increase in the infant mortality rate of about 2.5 percentage points for children born in …

Although the importance of diet quality for improving child health is widely recognized, the roles of environmental … factors and the absorption of nutrients for children's physical growth and morbidity have not been adequately integrated into … a policy framework. Moreover, nutrient intakes gradually affect child health, so it is helpful to use alternative tools …

for children in migrant households. These results provide a broader and more nuanced view of the health consequences of …The authors investigate the impact of international migration on child health outcomes in rural Mexico using a … to the United States in order to correct for the possible endogeneity of migrant status. They find that children in …

for male children, the same cultural norm widely known to cause excess mortality before birth or at young ages. Using … adult mortality is higher for women with first-born girls, especially the poor and uneducated with limited access to health … care and prenatal sex diagnostic technologies. To ensure the desired sex composition of children, these women resort to a …

been at work, including reductions among the poor (but not among the better-off) in coverage of health services and in …. The authors examine various policy scenarios, including expanding coverage of health services, water and sanitation, and … find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …

A long literature in demography debates the importance of place for health. This paper assesses whether the importance … sanitation an important mechanism by which population density in?uences health outcomes? The paper uses newly assembled data sets …, international child-level data set of 172 Demographic and Health Surveys, matched to census population density data for 1 …