-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A …-related health. …

-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …

Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … the policy bolstered women's intra-household bargaining power, resulting in downstream benefits through enhanced parental …

generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was …

This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel … paternal unemployment reduces child health, while maternal unemployment has beneficial child health impacts. Analysis of … certain health investments, including children's diets. Our results support the notion that traditional gender roles can …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …

In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by "lifestyle" choices; that is, a set … of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered to invoke a substantial degree of free … choice. The main underlying assumption is that individuals are co-producers of their own health. We first present a …

This paper presents a model of consumption and household production that takes into account substitution between health … related to marriage markets that could help explain consumption, including demand for medical care and good nutrition. These …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal …