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

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 …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …

concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … with regard to mothers ́mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child …