David Bloom

Dissertation Title："Empirical Essays on Major Forces in Health, Population, and Development"

This dissertation investigates several open empirical questions in health, population, and development.

The first chapter addresses ongoing debate about whether or...

Dissertation Title:  "Community and Environmental Determinants of Child Health"

The first and third papers of this dissertation provide evidence on one piece of a broad debate over decentralizing health sectors in developing countries: the popular but...