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 …

, 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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net nutrition. Little is known about how weights varied among Mexicans … height and age, two uncontrollable characteristics, indicating that 19th century Mexican current net nutrition varied the …