the physical environment. This study evaluates 19th century macro-level nutrition and diseases associated with US BMI … effect on net-nutrition than cholera. After controlling for nutrition and disease, black BMIs and weights were greater than …

West Africa, in Ghana and Nigeria. We observe children born before and after the creation of these dumps, and estimate a …This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in … mortality, for children living in the proximity of the site. Event studies suggest that the negative effects emerge 2-3 years …

How costly are droughts to individuals’ nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite … individual characteristics, timing relative to growing seasons, irrigation, climate, and country-year effects, we show that …

The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic … development has been the focus of a vibrant research agenda in the past decade. This influential literature has attracted the …

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … the earthquake’s aftermath. This aid mitigated but could not fully prevent the adverse effects on children’s health and … education. Reduced children’s health and education will have lasting private and social costs, which could easily exceed the …

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of … their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health …