This paper uses the Bangladesh Famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine malnutrition on sex ratio at birth and infant mortality, and also on post-Famine pregnancy outcomes for women who were exposed to the Famine while pregnant. Using the 1996 Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey (MHSS), we …nd that children who were in utero during the most severe period of the Famine were 2 percent more likely to die within one month or one year of birth compared to children who were not in utero during the Famine. Furthermore, controlling for preFamine fertility, we …nd that women who were pregnant during the Famine experienced a higher number of stillbirths in the post-Famine years. This increase appears to be driven by an excess number of male stillbirths. JEL Codes: I10, I12, J12, J13.

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Between 1990 and 2007, the number of Catholic schools in the United States decreased by 14% and enrollment diminished by 7%. We generate two measures of publicity of sexual abuse at the diocesan level-public disclosure and news coverage. Dioceses with higher rates of negative publicity had a larger decline in both the number of Catholic schools and overall Catholic school enrollment. We estimate that publicity arising from sexual offenders within the Church explains 5% of the decline in the availability of Catholic schooling. (JEL I21, H52, H44)