migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … home village when they were young we find a sizable adverse impact of exposure to parental migration on children's health …

We examine the persistence of the impact of early-life exposure to air pollution on children's health from birth to … school enrollment using administrative public health insurance records covering one third of all children in Germany. For … restrictions on high-emission vehicles. Our results indicate that children exposed to cleaner air around birth require less …

To reduce sugar intake in children, California regulates the provision of sugar-sweetened beverages and juice by child … care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their … more juice for their children after child cares limit their juice provision, but such offsetting behavior disappears after …

children and infants. A rationale for expansion of smoke-free laws implicitly presumes that potential public health gains from … bans impact the venue of smoking, and the health of children and infants. Using models that exploit state- and county … cost savings of about $71 - $111 million annually. Health improvements among older children add to these economic benefits. …

associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show … a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left …-behind children relative to children who migrate with their parents. Additional results from a standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … characteristics, and girl children exhibit poorer nutritional status than boys. Results from a quantile decomposition procedure …

. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer … differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …

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 …

of obesity and the probability of having a chronic health condition in adulthood. Using the plausibly exogenous city … find an elevated incidence of chronic health conditions such as stroke, hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disorder … in adulthood among these wartime children. …

on the health of young adults. We find that an additional $ 100 in the average annual EITC exposure between ages 0 and 18 … increases the likelihood of reporting very good or excellent health by 2.7 percentage points and decreases the likelihood of …, and increases in health insurance coverage are channels through which the EITC improves health. …