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 essay discusses recent progress that has been made in understanding the connection between health and … net nutrition during the growing years. Based on this measure, health improved uniformly during industrialization in …. Health was inversely correlated with the degree of urbanization across countries and rising urbanization led to health …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …

the level of nutrition and health on economic, social, and demographic behavior. It is based on a set of samples covering …. There is evidence that nutrition affected labor productivity. In one of the samples individuals who were one standard …

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

owners substantially managed slave health. The short-term evidence shows that weather affected growth via exposure to …