This paper is an empirical exploration of the dynamic relationship between health and cognitive development in a … feedback both from health to cognitive development and from cognitive development to health, but the latter of these … health and cognitive development over the life cycle. The second finding suggests that nurture "matters" in cognitive …

discuss alternative explanations of the correlation between health and schooling. The second is to test these explanations … is limited to one rather unique body of data and uses two measures of health that are far from ideal. The methodological … of current and past health and background characteristics become available …

We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by … using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth …

Nascent research suggests intergenerational health mobility may be relatively high and non-genetic factors may make … room for policy intervention. This project broadens this direction by considering heterogeneous intergenerational health … adolescents (Add Health), this study finds large spatial variation in intergenerational health mobility in the United States. On …

-being. Whereas parents who are more exposed to the family planning policies consume more and enjoy slightly better physical health … status, they report more severe depression symptoms. Our study calls for greater attention to the mental health status of the …

estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in …We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and … which a reduction in health leads to an increase in the wage rate but find no evidence of a causal relationship running from …

health of a program providing monthly coupons for free water treatment solution (diluted chlorine) to households with young … children. The program is more effective and much more cost-effective than asking Community Health Workers (CHWs) to distribute …