policies.  The overall impact, however, is uncertain.  This study presents fresh evidence on nutrition and health in colonial … crises were, the net outcome of colonial times was a significant progress in nutrition and health. …

nutrition will have benefits that extend beyond health into education. …Using new and unique panel data, we investigate the role of long-term health and childhood malnutrition in schooling … outcomes for children in rural India, many of whom lack basic numeracy and literacy skills.  Using data on students …

Nutrition and health are important dimensions of human well-being. Both aspects are complementary to income and deserve …

The size of adverse selection and moral hazard effects in health insurance markets has important policy implications … inefficiencies created by adverse selection (e.g., mandatory insurance enrolment) may lead to substantial increases in health care … light on this important topic by studying the US Medigap (supplemental) health insurance market.  While both adverse …

Children are increasingly treated as active members in the household.  However, their preferences over consumption and … builds a theoretical and empirical model for children's time and consumption allocations in a household.  We test the … differences in parents' relative altruism.  Families seem to function as market economies in which children trade off leisure and …

It is universally accepted that children have important effects on household demand patterns. This is usually … attributed to the direct effect of children; for example children are food intensive. Alternative inferences are that the … observed correlations between children and demand patterns are due to non-direct effects, such as fixed effects, state …

allows height to be the result of the accumulation of inputs (i.e., nutrition and diseases) over time.  The empirical … specification allows the causal identification of the age specific effects of both nutrition and diseases on height.  Rich … longitudinal data on Filopino children followed for more than 20 years are used.  Considering the differences in growth paterns …

This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long-run for health and education outcomes, in a … region of Northwestern Tanzania. We study a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991-94, who were traced and …, allowing us to assess permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. In the analysis, we can control for a wide range of …

also at educational and health aspirations.  Like earlier studies we find that income aspirations increase with both the … aspired to education.  However, with respect to health, we find that people aspire to more rather than less health when …