Saturday, April 13 / 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM • Meeting Room 304 (Level 3)

Session 220
Determinants of Child Health and Mortality

Chair: Mahesh Karra, Boston University
Discussant: Joshua Wilde, University of South Florida

1. The Unintended Consequences of Infrastructure Development: The Impact of Sewerage Diffusion on Early-Life Mortality in Peru • Antonella Bancalari , London School of Economics.

2. Neonatal Death in India: The Effect of Birth Order in a Context of Maternal Undernutrition • Diane Coffey , Population Research Center; Dean Spears, Delhi School of Economics.

3. Female Genital Cutting and Child Mortality: Evidence from the 1999 Senegalese FGC Ban • Jorge Garcia Hombrados , London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

4. Aging Out of WIC and Child Nutrition: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design • Travis Smith, University of Georgia; Pourya Valizadeh , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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