Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight …This paper examines the growth effect of one of the largest nutrition assistance programs in early life. The program … covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …

fuel poverty and a set of well-being outcomes: life-satisfaction, self-reported health measures and more objectively … associations with life satisfaction and fibrinogen, one of our biological health measures. The presence of these strong … deprivation indicators as well as in the case of self-reported generic measures of physical health. Lifestyle and chronic health …

This paper is a meta-analysis on the relationship between unemployment and health. Our meta-dataset is made up of 327 … estimators. The average effect of unemployment on health is negative, but small in terms of partial correlation coefficient. We … psychological domains of health and that short- and long-term unemployment spells equally affect health. Dealing with endogeneity …

significantly positive impacts on hemoglobin levels and reduced the prevalence of anemia by 20 percent but these health gains did …

children aged below five years. Using detailed dataset from the current and fourth round of the National Family Health Survey … child health outcomes, we find that while domestic violence primarily affects child health via deterioration in maternal … health, neglect of children in terms of inadequate provision of essential child care also seem to matter. The results from …