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 …

substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … generated by the 1997 reform and the accompanying middle school class openings. The insignificance of the health effect may be …This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The …

a public health crisis. Using the Flint Water Crisis as a natural experiment, we estimate the effect of in utero … exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data, we use a … effect on the length of gestation or rate of prematurity. However, these effects are larger among children born to black …

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 …

. 6,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 … status, nutritional status, domestic violence, neighborhood, and health). We used multinomial regression models to examine … significant factors. Results show that worse health condition in childhood and unfavorable childhood and adolescent socioeconomic …

The empirical evidence on the inter-generational effects of maternal health interventions is inconclusive, particularly … the impact on cognitive ability of children. In this paper, we study one such popular policy from India, viz, the Janani … Suraksha Yojana (JSY) which is a agship health and safe motherhood program. We exploit plausible exogenous variation in …

primary school children. We conducted a field experiment that randomly provided a one-year supply of DFS at a subsidized price … iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "mid-day meal" on anemia, cognition, and math and reading scores of … significantly positive impacts on hemoglobin levels and reduced the prevalence of anemia by 20 percent but these health gains did …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …