improvements in self-reported health. The association between area education and health increased greatly between 1990 and 2010 … smokes noticeably less and that is less obese, leading to increasing divergence in health outcomes by area education … education, demographics, and area characteristics. Area human capital is also associated with lower disease prevalence and …

family's health, nutrition, and finances. However, this does not increase overall adoption of health-promoting behaviors or … use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of a communication training program for mothers on child health in … husbands and, thereby, boost investments in children's health. We find that the program increases spousal discussion about the …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However … subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …

We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … grains that are cheaper, yet taste-wise, inferior sources of nutrition, but had no effect on calorie, protein and fat intake … nutrition are also negligible. We find evidence that the decline in the price of wheat and rice, changed consumption patterns …

-- at any given actual weight -- than those with low education. These results should be treated cautiously, and fixed …

lower education was 10 percentage points higher in states with substitute programs than in states that implemented the …