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 …

This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in …

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 …

We assess evidence from randomized control trials (RCTs) on long-run economic productivity and living standards in poor … focus on cash transfer and child health programs, and show that a meaningful subset can realistically be evaluated for long …

transmission, deworming creates substantial externality health and school participation benefits among untreated children in the …

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

investment. This paper uses a randomized evaluation in Kenya to measure the health impacts of investments to improve source water … are much smaller than levels implied by health planners' typical valuations of child mortality, consistent with models in … which the demand for health is highly income elastic. Simulations suggest that, at current income levels, private property …