, 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 …

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our …Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …

externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …This paper addresses the question whether taxes on unhealthy food are suitable for internalizing intergenerational … parent, the optimal steady state tax rate on unhealthy food is strictly positive. However, it is only second best since it …

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

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

Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is … scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field … about their children’s competitiveness preferences. Third, parents’ choices predict children's later-in-life educational …

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 …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …, indicating transmission through cultural factors. We find that, when both adoptive parents are overweight, the likelihood of an …

both sophisticated and naive procrastinators to reduce time-inconsistent behavior. A field experiment on exercising …

Heights and body mass index values (BMIs) are now well accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic … current net nutrition. Across the weight distribution and throughout the 19th century, white and black average weights … infectious disease rates were high, Southern current net nutrition was better than elsewhere within the US. …