causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reduced-form effect found in …

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30. We find that there is no clear evidence of increased … death. We also provide descriptive evidence of an increase in the use of mental health-related medications and sickness …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest. …

monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county … provide evidence of several underlying mechanisms, including improved physical and mental health, better educational outcomes …, increased cognitive skills, and sustained use of routine health checkups among adolescents. …

The variation in life-expectancy and health outcomes across countries and cohorts is striking. While medical progress … and climatic factors have received much attention, there is only relatively little we know about the health impact of … cumulative childhood exposure to democracy shapes adult health outcomes. It is found that growing up in bad regimes lastingly …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …