animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was …

-7, negatively impacts the adult mental health of the survivors' children. We also find negative effects on parent's mental health …Can the effects of early childhood trauma persist across generations, impacting the long-run outcomes of their children …. Our findings show that the determinants of mental health problems can be traced back across a generation and demonstrate …

This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health … in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers … to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments based on the weight‐for‐age nutritional status of children in their …

population to the brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the …

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few …

to IV estimation. -- malnutrition ; health ; schooling ; Barker hypothesis ; China Famine …

causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reducedform effect found in …

providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are … supposed to provide a mid-day meal and also advise mothers on health and nutrition for their child. Our one-day caregiver … training covered basic health and nutrition facts with advice on how to communicate with mothers for behavior change at home …

wide range of outcomes of children of mothers who were exposed in-utero including income, education, employment, and … directly affected and their children. We find that on average, the famine had negative echo effects on second …

stunting's evolution among South African children and adolescents aged 0–19, with particular attention to how the prevalence of …. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living … standards are controlled for, the higher tendency for children in deep rural households to suffer from (severe) stunting …