We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced … hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …

,000 deaths. Combining birth history data drawn from the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey with prefecture … children who were only exposed while in utero. This evidence points to the existence of long-term disruptive effects on the … cohorts of children exposed to the violence. …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … municipalities, saving 861 children/year. The decline is driven mainly by deaths due to preventable causes, such as diarrhea and …

treatment intensity. Reductions were driven by low-income countries and less wealthy households, primarily due to increases in …

larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses …

low birth weight and acute asthma attacks among children by 1.9 and 8.0 percent, respectively. These health impacts occur …Car exhaust is a major source of air pollution, but little is known about its impacts on population health. We exploit … - across the United States from 2008-2015 as a natural experiment to measure the health impact of car pollution. Using the …

century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health … at the top. -- Childhood health ; disability …

services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of … the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing … improvements in both maternal and infant health compared to the control rayons. Among the infant health outcomes, the MIHP impact …

The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average … century. -- Heights of children ; infant mortality ; health in Britain … height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection effect and a negative scarring effect …