Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. For this purpose, climate data for each survey cluster are interpolated using daily … diarrhea. The impacts of weather shocks on health are of considerable magnitude; however, children seem to catch up with their … on children's health, suggesting that a moderate increase in future rainfall variability is not likely to bring …

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 …

caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic … health has been quite limited; and (ii) provides evidence of significant synergies among adequate food, child care, and … environment and health …

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 …

To diagnose and treat preventable threats to maternal and neonatal health in Sub-Saharan Africa, a policy focus has … been put on increasing coverage rates of targeted health services. Exploiting an experimental design, this study evaluates … antenatal and postnatal care, as well as for delivering in health facilities. The analysis finds that although health centers …

This study examines the effect of performance incentives for health care providers to provide more and higher quality … care in Rwanda on child health outcomes. The authors find that the incentives had a large and significant effect on the … weight-for-age of children 0-11 months and on the height-for-age of children 24-49 months. They attribute this improvement to …

Early life health and net nutrition shape childhood and adult cognitive skills and human capital. In poor countries …

among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … villages in Madhya Pradesh to measure the effect of the program on toilet access, sanitation behavior, and child health … outcomes. The study analyzed a random sample of 3,039 households and 5,206 children under five years of age. Field staff …

This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey … improved sanitation and fixed-point defecation. There is a 47 percent reduction in diarrhea prevalence between children living …

This paper analyzes the level and trends in inequality of opportunity among Egyptian children during the 2000s. The … significant progress in the availability of and access to basic services for children and mothers, in some cases with an overall … deteriorated during the 2000s, affecting a quarter of children regardless of their circumstances. Wide disparities in school …