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

, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …

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

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at … ages 0-12 and this effect is mediated by paternal education. …

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 …

nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …

that men in post-war marriages were better off in terms of their spouse’s education, this gain amounting to about half a … year of education. By considering heterogeneity across provinces, we find that the effects were more pronounced in more …

How costly are droughts to individuals' nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite …

expectancy increased at the same time that nutrition decreased, indicating that the most important source of increased life … expectancy was not improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per day than workers … in other occupations. White diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and whites in the rural Deep South …