-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to …

Age is one of the core topics in Census. In Census 2011, for the first time data on both date of birth and age has been …

conflict, Leon exploit the variation in war location and birth cohorts of children to identify the effect of the civil war on ….21 less years of education as an adult. In the short-term, the effects are stronger than in the long run. Further, children … evidence shows that the effect on mother's health status and the subsequent effect on child health is what drives the long …

the foundations of India’s human resources — the health and wellbeing of our hundreds of millions of children. Without … reasonably good health the prospects for learning and skill development are bleak … and without that so is our long term future …

Birth defects occur in population in 3-5% of births. All those birth defects due to chromosomal errors, hundreds of … likely to be carrying a fetus with a birth defect except in a few instances, namely: -Down syndrome, -neural tube defect, -a … previous history in the family of a particular defect and - a history in sub-population of a high birth incidence of a …

This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and … minimized when the local public health infrastructure is sufficiently developed (municipality coverage of piped water and …