This paper estimates the impact of armed conflict on subsequent health outcomes using detailed geographic information … children exposed in utero versus after birth. The identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in the conflict … war-exposed children subsequently have lower height-for-age Z-scores, and impacts using GPS information are 87-188% larger …

Whether and how a paternal health shock cascades across multiple generations to affect descendant health is … paternal health shock affects grandchildren's longevity in a unique setting where the ancestral stressor is the grandfather … understudied even though a link between ancestral living conditions and descendant health may constitute an important source of …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …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 …

Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who … and children's food intake, weight, and food security? We use the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to … examine these questions for a representative sample of young children and their providers. We find that program eligibility …

food security of households and children, as measured by number of affirmative responses to a food insecurity questionnaire … and an indicator for food insecurity. The effects are largest among low-income households and children, but are also … sizeable for middle-income children …

A long literature in economics studies differential allocations of resources to children within the family. In a study … of approximately 1,600 very disadvantaged households with children in three cities in the U.S. from 1999 to 2005 …, significant differences in levels of food allocation, as measured by an indicator of food "insecurity," are found across children …

satisfaction. Apart from a reduction in self-reported pain, we estimate precise null effects on mental and physical health …

(1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years …