We evaluate the short- and medium-term health impacts of Sure Start, a large-scale and universal early childhood …-sector hospitals. Exposure to an additional Sure Start center per thousand age-eligible children increases hospitalization by 10% at …' can deliver significant health benefits, even in contexts with universal healthcare. Impacts are driven by …

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health. …

When deciding how to allocate their time among different types of investment in their children, parents weigh up the … perceived benefits and costs of different activities. During the COVID-19 outbreak parents had to consider a new cost dimension … when making this decision: the perceived health risks associated with contracting the virus. What role did parental beliefs …

population to the brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … municipalities, saving 861 children/year. The decline is driven mainly by deaths due to preventable causes, such as diarrhea and …

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 …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional … pediatrics. We discuss current challenges to the field and suggest avenues for future research. -- health ; prevention …

Birth weight is the most widely used indicator of neonatal health, mainly because it is routinely recorded in birth … of the fetus and of the newborn are more informative about the prenatal environment and more predictive of child health …

insurance. Across a range of health measures, we estimate no significant impacts on health. …

candidate mediators of those effects and potential targets for health-protective intervention. -- immune system ; gene …