A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs combined reduce STI more, but cut dropout and pregnancy less, than … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …

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. …Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses …

the causes and effects of long-term changes in the health of the European populations. The paper surveys methods which had …

Were cash benefits and welfare services available to the unemployed sufficient to protect them from ill-health? Recent …, confidential reports of the Ministry of Health and Board of Education, to point out that expert witnesses were increasingly …

and purchased child care (e.g. childminders, nannies) for the care and rearing of children. The theoretical model implies … that the impact of the mother's wage on her completed fertility varies with the market price of child care, and that this …

accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children … also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …

responds to earnings shocks. If productivity depends on nutrition, this explains some but not all of the response, as earnings …