range of topics including income and poverty, fertility, infant and adult mortality, enrolment in education and care of … indicators for the years 1989 to 2000-2001, as well as comprehensive statistical profiles on each country in the region. Social …

Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available. Information on …

We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows … for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and … developing countries, and standard components of quantitative macroeconomic theory. We consider both changes in general health …

Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades … public sector interventions, notably reproductive health and immunization, supported by external assistance from the World …

health as well as recently developed nonparametric tests for stochastic dominance to assess whether the quantity …. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and controlling for the potential endogeneity of fertility, we find … size are only possible if one accounts for ‘dispersion’ in child health. Moreover, the magnitude of the trade-off is not …