It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and … lung functioning or health and there is no change in fuel consumption (and presumably greenhouse gas emissions). The … and health technologies in real-world settings where behavior may temper impacts, and to test them over a long enough …

implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision …This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …

We examine the consequences of childhood health for economic and health outcomes in adulthood, using height as a marker … of health in childhood. After reviewing previous evidence, we present a conceptual framework that highlights data … height and a range of outcomes, including schooling, employment, earnings, health and cognitive ability, using data collected …

records are linked to provincial registries with outcomes data. We compare children with health conditions to their own … not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily … because it predicts future health or through some other mechanism, or whether health insults matter more at some key ages than …

A large literature documents that childhood health shocks have lasting negative consequences for adult outcomes. This … occupational choices, which reflect their comparative advantage. We merge records on children hospitalized with poliomyelitis …

We examine multi-generational impacts of positive in utero and early life health interventions. We focus on the 1980s …'s health outcomes at birth. We find strong evidence that the health benefits associated with treated generations' in utero … birth weight. Later childhood exposure to Medicaid does not lead to persistent health effects across generations. The return …

A growing literature argues that early environments affecting childhood health may influence significantly later …-life health and financial wellbeing. We present new evidence on the relationship between child health and later-life outcomes … using variation in infant mortality in England and Wales at the onset of World War II. Using data from the British Household …

cash welfare recipients to estimate the effect of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health, labor supply, program …-based eligibility accumulated more Medicaid eligibility in childhood but did not differ on a range of other health, socioeconomic, and … extensive margin labor supply, and reduces receipt of disability transfer programs and public health insurance up to 50 years …

the availability of ART increased the likelihood that children in households with HIV positive household heads started …In 2007, approximately one in five children in Zambia lived with an HIV positive adult. We identify the effect of adult … antiretroviral therapy (ART) availability at scale on children's educational outcomes by combining data on the expansion of ART …

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores …, and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper uses a large dataset on the population of … Norway and focuses on the effect of birth order on a range of health and health-related behaviors, outcomes not previously …