In Sub-Saharan Africa, the scale of undernutrition is staggering; 58 million children under the age of five are too short for their age (stunted), and 14 million weigh too little for their height (wasted). Poor diets in terms of diversity, quality, and quantity, combined with illness and poor water and sanitation facilities, are linked with deficiencies of micr...

Using Demographic and Health Surveys from twenty-seven African countries, I examine the effect of the death of infants on their mothers' health behaviors for the birth of their subsequent children. Controlling for the location and the year of a child's birth and utilising the timing of the child's death, I find that the experience of a child's death induces a mothe...