sugar exposure. We find that prenatal exposure to derationing increases education and reduces BMI and sugar consumption at …

-related health. After the fall of the Wall, East Germans permanently changed their diet by consuming novel western food products. A … experiment of economic development. Our data elicit detailed information on East Germans' food consumption, body mass, and diet … current consumption, and where novel goods determine consumption changes over time with ambiguous effects on diet …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …

health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when …Lack of information about health risks may limit the adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper … studies the effect of a nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, hemoglobin levels, and cognitive …

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 … ages 0–12 and this effect is mediated by paternal education. …

biochemical processes. I document supporting evidence of these mechanisms in economics research and population health trends. I …

generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was … exposed. We do not find robust effects on the probability of obtaining an upper secondary education. …

across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES …. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … health disparities across education that average 19.3%. …

education on health. Second, we present evidence that parents compensate for differences in their children's health endowments … mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on … health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based studies of the US population, which show little or no effect of …