analysis is based on a sample of over 13,000 children (and their parents) drawn from the Health Survey for England. In … evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health … hypothesis that the NHS has a protective effect on the health of children in England. …

Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural …This paper analyzes urban-rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989-2006. The results show that on average …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by …

children born of about 0.6 million mothers in 38 developing countries in the 31 year period, 1970-2000. Mother's health is …This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and …

of children from poorer families. …

services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally available in Ukraine, implementation of … the Mother and Infant Health Project allows addressing quality rather than quantity effect of medical care. Employing … improvements in both maternal and infant health compared to the control rayons. Among the infant health outcomes, the MIHP impact …