The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which …

vaccination program has implications that extend beyond the direct health benefits. Taken together, our results underscore the … critical role of medical innovations and health interventions in improving economic optimism and food security, especially … among vulnerable populations, during public health crises …

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …

In this study, we document the effect of Food Stamp access on adult health care utilization. While Food Stamps is one … or mental health, or due to individuals with common chronic health conditions, leaving open the possibility that changes … Stamps increased the affordability of specialty health care, which may have further reduced the need for physician visits …

This paper investigates the consequences of prenatal exposure to hot temperatures on child health in Sub-Saharan Africa … of the Demographic and Health Surveys merged with gridded data on the presence of heat waves and their magnitude since … the 1980s, we investigate the effects of inutero exposure to heat waves on several birth and early childhood health …

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 reduced-form effect found in …

Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about … relatively long-run measures of child health. Identifying this causal relationship is complicated due to endogenous selection and …

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments …