Each year, many pregnant women fast from dawn to sunset during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Medical theory … suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder …'s pregnancy have a poorer general health and are sick more often than people who were not exposed. This effect is especially …

-collected historical data on the number of livestock at the local level with microdata on eating habits, health outcomes, and food … individuals have a higher probability of being obese, having poor self-perceived health, and developing cancer. The effects are … larger for women and persist intergenerationally, as the adult children of mothers who experienced meat scarcity similarly …

This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort …-specific pension reform for women using two complementary empirical approaches - a Regression Discontinuity Design and a Difference …-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and …

, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early … daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. In this study, I investigate the impact … of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children's age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique …