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 …

Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to 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 …

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 …

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their … caregivers over the course of seven years after enrollment into daycare. At the end of 2007, the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil … used a lottery to assign children to limited public daycare openings. Winning the lottery translated to a 34 percent …

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 …

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

between parental educational attainments and adult health of the child generation can be attributed to pre- or post … health outcomes as adults. These results suggest that growing up in a better-educated household has long-term effects on … health outcomes. Our analysis of the mechanisms behind the results suggests that formation of human capital, and in …

of children from poorer families …