this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …

paper studies the effects of the program on neonatal mortality using district-level household survey data. We model … mortality using survival analysis, paying special attention to the substantial heaping present in the data. The main objective … estimator and provide a simple procedure to test whether the policy had (uniformly) reduced mortality. While our empirical …

paper studies the effects of the program on neonatal mortality using district-level household survey data. We model … mortality using survival analysis, paying special attention to substantial heaping, a form of measurement error, present in the … different heaping mechanisms. Our empirical findings do not suggest a significant reduction of mortality in treated districts …

consumption expenditure will help reduce child mortality rates in Ghana. In order to reduce child mortality rates among children …In this study, the causal nexus between child mortality rate, fertility rate, GDP, household final consumption … running from fertility rate, food production index, GDP, and household final consumption expenditure to the mortality rate …

several health outcomes and find that, in general, increased openness is associated with lower rates of infant mortality and …

-life mortality using data from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study of individuals born in 1915-1929. The results suggest a relationship …

We estimate the causal effect of permanent and premature exits from the labor force on mortality. To overcome the …-eligible regions. Using administrative data with precise information on mortality and retirement, we find that the policy change … men retiring one year earlier causes a 6.8% increase in the risk of premature death and 0.2 years reduction in the age at …