health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy …We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health. …

accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We are the first to decompose the sibling …

(CFPS) to investigate the dynamic effects of parental migration on the health of left behind young children (LBC). While we …In 2015, 15% of all children in China were left behind in the countryside because at least one of their parents … reports suggestive evidence for mental health improvement. We argue that these long-term positive effects on health and health …

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 …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

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 …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … pregnancy if it does not condition on school performance. Then, using an original data base, we estimate the causal impact on …

The impact of global climate change on health is not well understood. Besides the direct channel of increasing … evidence on the effect of natural disasters on pregnancy outcomes. Elevated stress levels associated with extreme events … risk of health problems later, implying even larger long run societal costs. Results confirm that exposure to extreme …