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 …

the first evidence on the determinants of uptake of two recent public dental benefit programs for Australian children and …. For instance, mothers with worse mental health or riskier lifestyles are much less likely to claim the available benefits … for their children. These barriers to uptake are particularly large in magnitude: together they reduce the uptake rate by …

This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural … records of all refugee arrivals and birth events between 2010 and 2017 show that children born to mothers who were exogenously …

comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health …

Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the … child with health problems when women enter the last decade of their reproductive life. I present a simple theoretical model …

Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study … changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health differences exist between deceased and surviving fetuses. Furthermore …

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 … 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 …