family's health, nutrition, and finances. However, this does not increase overall adoption of health-promoting behaviors or … use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of a communication training program for mothers on child health in … husbands and, thereby, boost investments in children's health. We find that the program increases spousal discussion about the …

Hundreds of millions of children in less developed countries suffer from poor health and nutrition. Children in most … in developed countries. Recent research has shown that poor health and nutrition among children reduces their time in … health and nutrition on education, describes estimation problems and potential solutions, and summarizes recent empirical …

Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses … ameliorated the deterioration of health in young children caused by a severe drought. Correcting for self-selection into the … for children, providing large and significant health gains for children whose families suffered from drought. …

Malawi which provides mothers with information on infant nutrition and health. It finds that the intervention results in …This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health … funded by increased father's labor supply, constituting evidence that changes in the perceived child health production …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to changes in the socioeconomic … and public health environment into which children are born using individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to … data. We find that children are more likely to bear the penalty exerted by poor maternal health if they are conceived or …