This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three … changes later in childhood. Since smoking is one source of producing carbon monoxide and thus affects child health negatively …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life …

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 …

explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the … first to consider whether there are any harmful effects for children who are not yet born when the separation occurs. I use … displacements on children's birth weights. These data allow for an identification strategy that essentially compares the outcomes of …

On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the … nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid … urbanization taking place throughout the developing world and in targeting resources appropriately to raise population health. We …

focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child …

The relationship between lifestyle choices and health has been widely studied in the epidemiological and economic … a health production function and reduced form equations for lifestyles. As a result, behaviors toward health are taken … to be determined by exogenous socio-economic variables. In this article, we show that health is a key determinant of …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three … changes later in childhood. Since smoking is one source of producing carbon monoxide and thus affects child health negatively …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life …

sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid …Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal …