undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their …Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

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 …

. We test the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a … health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but imperfect correlation across …

Strengthening the relationship of accountability between health service providers and citizens is by many people viewed … as critical for improving access to and quality of health care. How this is to be achieved, and whether it works, however …, remain open questions. This paper presents a randomized field experiment on increasing community-based monitoring. As …

expect if food consumption delivers not only utils, but also nutrients affecting future productivity. The efficiency … conditions which characterize the within-household allocation of food under the unitary model are violated, as consumption … responds to earnings shocks. If productivity depends on nutrition, this explains some but not all of the response, as earnings …

Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the … UK to (i) document these differences; (ii) estimate a demand system for food and nutrients, and (iii) simulate …

Over the Great Recession real wages stagnated and unemployment increased. Concurrently, food prices rose sharply …, outstripping growth in food expenditure, and leading to a reduction in calories purchased. This has led to concern about rising … food poverty. We study British households to assess how they adjusted to changes in the economic environment. We show they …

taboos for particular foods. One natural question to ask is whether such food cultures matter in an economic sense. In … inter-state migrants within India consume fewer calories per Rupee of food expenditure compared to their non … on culture: that migrants make nutritionally-suboptimal food choices due to cultural preferences for the traditional …