Africa is urbanizing rapidly, and this creates both opportunities and challenges. Labor productivity appears to be much …

the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the …

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health …

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …