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Tracing the genetic footprints of the UK National Health Service

Martín Bassols, Nicolau; Biroli, Pietro; De Cao, Elisabetta - 2026

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Tracing the genetic footprints of the UK National Health Service

Martín Bassols, Nicolau; Biroli, Pietro; De Cao, Elisabetta - 2026

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Tracing the genetic footprints of the UK National Health Service

Martín Bassols, Nicolau; Biroli, Pietro; De Cao, Elisabetta - 2026

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Selective sanitation and racial health inequality

Fourie, Johan; Lemon, Kelsey; Pretorius, Jan-Hendrik - 2026

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Real consumer food prices and child mortality : evidence from low- and middle-income countries

Usman, Muhammed Abdella; Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew; … - 2025

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Maternal education, economic empowerment and infant mortality in Burkina Faso

Barro, Lamissa; Tiendrebeogo, Aïcha; Nana, Issa; … - 2025

Education levels in Burkina Faso, especially among women, remain low despite efforts made by government authorities and development partners to implement priority area 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This situation presents difficulties for women in terms of their being...

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The hidden toll of airborne lead : infant mortality impacts of industrial lead pollution

Clay, Karen; Severnini, Edson R.; Wang, Xiao - 2025

This paper uses U.S. TRI data on industrial air lead emissions to provide IV estimates of the effects of air lead concentration on infant mortality. The causal effect of lead on infant mortality is identified by variation in air fugitive lead emissions interacted with wind speed near reporting...

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The Hidden Toll of Airborne Lead : Infant Mortality Impacts of Industrial Lead Pollution

Clay, Karen; Severnini, Edson R.; Wang, Xiao - 2025

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Enhancing maternal and infant healthcare in remote villages : experimental evidence on the efficacy of demand and supply-side subsidies

Bancalari, Antonella; Bernal, Pedro; Garcia, Maria Fernanda - 2024

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Hospitals, maternal and infant health : impact of the opening of public hospitals in Mexico

Pastrana, Julio Alberto Ramos; Fajnzylber, Eduardo; … - 2024

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Contraceptive access creates positive selection in infant health

Flynn, James - 2024

This paper documents an important unintended consequence of expanding contraceptive access; namely that it creates positive selection in the health of the children being born. I use a family planning intervention which gave thousands of long-acting reversible contraceptives to reproductive-age...

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Contraceptive Access Creates Positive Selection in Infant Health

Flynn, James - 2024

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The effects of neonatal intensive care on infant mortality and long-term health impairments

Hajdu, Tamás; Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor; … - 2024

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Birth intention status and infant mortality : fixed-effects analysis of 60 countries

Väisänen, Heini; Batyra, Ewa - 2024

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The importance of being local? : administrative decentralization and human development

Chaudhary, Latika; Lakshmi Iyer - 2024

We examine the human development consequences of transferring responsibility for public service provision to local governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that devolution of the responsibility for health functions from...

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Can expanding contraceptive access reduce adverse infant health outcomes?

Flynn, James - 2024

This paper uses the implementation of a privately funded family planning program in Colorado to demonstrate that expanding access to long-acting reversible contraceptives to lower income women creates positive selection in the health of the children being born, reducing the rates of extremely...

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Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?

Flynn, James - 2024

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Can expanding contraceptive access reduce adverse infant health outcomes?

Flynn, James - 2022

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Can Expanding Contraceptive Access Reduce Adverse Infant Health Outcomes?

Flynn, James - 2023

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Tracing the Genetic Footprints of the UK National Health Service

Martin-Bassols, Nicolau; Biroli, Pietro; De Cao, Elisabetta - 2026

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de, ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015615912

The impact of women's empowerment on infant and young child feeding practices : key dimensions and mediating channel in Nepal

Khan, Sana; Ferrone, Lucia - 2026

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Clean rides, healthy lives: the impact of electric vehicle adoption on air quality and infant health

Baran, Cavit; Currie, Janet M.; Dursun, Bahadir; Tekin, … - 2026

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Birth order and infant health : evidence from maternal immunisation in New Zealand

Schober, Thomas - 2026

Immunisation during pregnancy is a vital strategy to protect infants from infectious diseases in their first months of life. Drawing on administrative data from New Zealand, I analyse the relationship between birth order, maternal vaccination against pertussis and influenza, and subsequent...

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Causal effects of breastfeeding promotion on child health : understanding the role of nutrition

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Stearns, Jenna; Martin, Richard M. - 2026

Using data from the only large-scale randomized controlled trial promoting prolonged exclusive breastfeeding, we study how the intervention affected child health and why. The intervention increased weight-for-age in infancy, with effects persisting through adolescence. We show that treated...

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Causal effects of breastfeeding promotion on child health : understanding the role of nutrition

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Stearns, Jenna; Martin, Richard M. - 2026

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Growing up in a warming world : temperature and child health in India

Kannankeril Joseph, Vinod Joseph - 2026

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Cotton boom, childhood burden : the consequences of genetically modified cotton adoption for child health in North India

Argyros, Dimitrios - 2026

Over the past two decades, genetically modified (GM) crops have transformed global agriculture, yet their broader health consequences remain contested. This paper examines the medium- and long-term impact of Bt cotton adoption, a pest-resistant variety introduced in India in 2002, on infant...

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Socioeconomic inequalities in birth weight : novel distributional evidence from linked population data

Ha Trong Nguyen - 2026

This study is the first to use population-wide birth registration data spanning 18 years, linked to Census records, to examine the relationship between a comprehensive set of socioeconomic factors and the birth weight of more than 1.2 million children in Australia, both at the mean and across...

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Health reforms, facility-based delivery, and newborn's health : evidence from Rwanda

Park, Jiwon - 2026

Since 2006, Rwanda has experienced a substantial rise in the facility-based delivery (FBD) rate, attributed to various health initiatives. This paper investigates the impact of multiple health reforms on maternal service utilization and neonatal mortality rates. Employing a...

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Foreign Direct Investment and child health outcomes in Africa

Immurana, Mustapha; Iddrisu, Abdul-Aziz; Owusu, Samuel; … - 2023

While several studies have examined the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on economic development indicators, most of these studies focused on economic growth with very little attention paid to health outcomes. Moreover, among the studies that took account of health outcomes, none of...

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Does conditioning cash transfers on health treatment harm the health of other families on low incomes who depend on public services? : evidence from Brazil

Csapo, Marika - 2023

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Environmental quality, infant morality, and economic growth in selected sub-Saharan African countries

Aderounmu, Busayo; Awofiranye, Adedoyin; Oni, Olubusayo … - 2023

Beyond the usual macroeconomic stability, which is a necessity for economic growth, more focus should be placed on the effects that environmental quality has on infant mortality in sub‑Saharan Africa. Africa has always had the highest rate of infant mortality and the poorest environmental...

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Does paid family leave save infant lives? : evidence from California's paid family leave program

Chen, Feng - 2023

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Does higher financial inclusion lead to better health outcomes? : evidence from developing and transitional economies

Banerjee, Rajabrata; Maruta, Admasu Asfaw; Donato, Ronald - 2023

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Who benefits from free health insurance? : evidence from Mexico

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita - 2023

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Who benefits from free health insurance : evidence from Mexico

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita - 2023

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Who benefits from free health insurance : evidence from Mexico

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita - 2017

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Who benefits from free health insurance : evidence from Mexico

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita - 2017

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The long shadow of the past : early-life disease environment and later-life mortality

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason - 2023

A recently growing literature evaluates the influence of early-life conditions on life-cycle health and mortality. This paper extends this literature by estimating the associations between birth-state infant mortality rates experienced during early-life (as a proxy for general disease...

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The Hidden Toll of Airborne Lead: Infant Mortality Impacts of Industrial Lead Pollution

Clay, Karen; Severnini, Edson; Wang, Xiao - 2025

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Maternal education, economic empowerment and infant mortality in Burkina Faso

Barro, Lamissa; Tiendrebeogo, Aïcha; Nana, Issa; … - 2025

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Effects of a Community-Driven Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Intervention on Diarrhea, Child Growth, and Local Institutions

Quattrochi, John P; Coville, Aidan; Croke, Kevin; … - 2025

Diarrhea and growth faltering in early childhood reduce survival and impair neurodevelopment. This paper assesses whether a national program in the Democratic Republic of Congo reduced diarrhea and stunting and strengthened local water and sanitation institutions. The program combined (i) funds...

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Prenatal exposure to PM2.5 and infant health : evidence from Quebec

Bello, Abdel-Hamid; Isabelle, Maripier; Lacroix, Guy - 2025

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Mother's effective literacy status : implications on child health

Garg, Surabhi; Mishra, Srijit - 2025

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Empirical analysis of child labour, household poverty, and child health in Ghana

Adabor, Opoku - 2025

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Progress stalled? : the uncertain future of mortality in high-income countries

Dowd, Jennifer B.; Polizzi, Antonino; Tilstra, Andrea M. - 2025

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The impacts of mosquito nets on child malaria incidence in Timor-Leste

Wong, Chun Yee; Guterres Sousa, Florentina do Rego - 2025

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Individual behaviors and health inequalities : preterm birth during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico

Caudillo, Mónica L.; Villarreal, Andrés; Torche, Florencia - 2025

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Powering minds, empowering lives : understanding the effects of energy poverty- low-carbon energy transition nexus on children in MENA

Hlasny, Vladimir; Abdelfattah, Yasmine; AlAzzawi, Shireen; … - 2025

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The Irish in England

Cummins, Neil J.; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2025

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Intergenerational transmission of inequalities : are health inequalities at birth the missing link?

Bello, Abdel-Hamid; Isabelle, Maripier; Lacroix, Guy - 2025

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Impact of air pollution on birth outcomes : causal evidence from India

Misra, Shashank; Kulshreshtha, Shobhit - 2025

India consistently ranks among the countries with the highest levels of ambient air pollution worldwide. At the same time, it faces significant challenges in neonatal health, with newborns having low average birth weights and a high incidence of being born within the low birth weight (LBW) and...

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The effect of abortion policies on fertility and human capital in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dimico, Arcangelo - 2025

I evaluate the impact of abortion policies in sub-Saharan Africa to understand the potential consequences of a reduced international support for women's rights following the overturn of Roe v. Wade. I find that decriminalizing abortion reduces fertility through two complementary channels. For...

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