This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

poverty. It shows the prevalence of non-positive incomes in high- and middle-income countries, provides an analysis of the … standard poverty indexes. It is argued that negative and zero incomes cannot be treated equally in terms of household well …-being and that standard methods used by practitioners fail to recognize this fact likely resulting in overestimations of poverty. …

OLS models are the predominant choice for poverty predictions in a variety of contexts such as proxy-means tests …, poverty mapping or cross-survey imputations. This paper compares the performance of econometric and machine learning models in … predicting poverty using alternative objective functions and stochastic dominance analysis based on coverage curves. It finds …

Poverty prediction models are used by economists to address missing data issues in a variety of contexts such as … poverty profiling, targeting with proxy-means tests, cross-survey imputations such as poverty mapping, or vulnerability … models to predict poverty under these different scenarios. It finds that the quality of predictions and the choice of the …

covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that … several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and … Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal with omitted variable bias and reverse causality. Our first approach … attends to the issue of reverse causality by using health polygenic scores (PGSs) as proxies for actual adolescent health …

primary school children. We conducted a field experiment that randomly provided a one-year supply of DFS at a subsidized price … significantly positive impacts on hemoglobin levels and reduced the prevalence of anemia by 20 percent but these health gains did … effects, we find that treatment had statistically significant gains in anemia and test scores among children with higher …