2 Infant, Child, Adolescent Psychiatrist, IWK Health Centre; Associate Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; member joint advocacy committee Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Canadian Pediatric Association; conference organizing committee, Infant Mental Health Prevention and Promotion (IMPH); Co-chair, Infant Mental Health Interest group Canadian Academy of C...

In this article, I review recent research showing that even relatively low levels of pollution can affect infants' health. This research attempts to go beyond documenting correlations by using sharp changes in pollution levels, carefully selecting control groups (including unexposed siblings as controls for exposed children), and considering behavioral responses to pollution such as maternal mo...

This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004. Health aid has a statistically significant effect on infant mortality: doubling per capita health aid is associated with a 2 percent reduction in the infant mortality rate. For the average country, this implies that increasing per capita health aid by US$1.60 per ye...

Abstract This paper examines the effects of high school curriculum reforms on infant health by exploiting sharp and staggered changes across states in core course requirements for graduation. Our results suggest that significantly reduced incidence low birth weight prematurity black mothers. For white mothers, estimated are small generally insignificant. We also explore mechanisms observed prov...

KEY FINDINGS Data from the Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set and Preliminary Mortality Data File, National Vital Statistics System. The U.S. infant mortality rate did not decline from 2000 to 2005. Data from the preliminary mortality file suggest a 2% decline in the infant mortality rate from 2005 to 2006. The U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than those in most other developed countries, a...