the trends in educational and health infrastructure availability in the region; trends in educational attainments and … health standards of the people; trends in people’s access to social infrastructure and their affordability – especially among …

In a recent research paper, health economists David Cutler and Adriana Lleras-Muney analyze data primarily from the … National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual cross-sectional household survey administered by the National Center for … Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They find that higher levels of education …

cohorts, I analyze a possible causal effect of the war on nutritional outcomes of children. I use two empirical strategies …, leading to very similar results. Estimates indicate that children born in areas affected by high levels of violence are 0.8 cm … shorter than children born in low violence provinces. These results are robust to several specifications. Furthermore, the …

link between children's health at birth, mother's health during pregnancy, and children's height in the context of negative … differences are small. Finally, a robust finding in the health literature is that shorter children perform worse in schools, in …The exposure to violence in utero and early in life has adverse impacts on children's age-adjusted height (z …

inequities in ANC and delivery care services using the latest three waves of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey. This study … around 0.20 for receiving ANC from medically trained provider. Findings indicate that inequity in delivery at health facility … about 3 times more likely to have 4+ ANC visits (OR=2.91, 95% CI: 2.24-3.78), delivery at health facility (OR=3.16, 95% CI …

positive externalities in the form of improved health behaviors, such as more exercise, particularly for single black females. …

Child health, particularly long-term nutritional status, is closely related to the characteristics of families …, communities and children, including level of education and access to public services,. Public policy has a crucial role in … increasing the likelihood that a child can access high quality health-care and other services that affect health status. Access …

Objectives: This paper describes the age patterns of socioeconomic gradients of health of Indian adults for multiple … health indicators encompassing the multidimensional nature of health. Methods: Cross-sectional data on 11,230 Indians aged 18 … socioeconomic status (education and household wealth) and age on four health measures: self-rated health, self-reporting functioning …

all children under coverage of Elementary Education, which sadly has not been possible yet in India. Policy makers have …

The paper made an attempt present the micro reality with respect to child work and educational deprivation of children … discussion sheds light on the circumstances that lead to the widespread phenomenon of non-school-going children and flourishing …