There is a growing body of evidence showing that negative childhood health shocks have long term consequences in terms … of health, human capital formation and labor market outcomes. However, by altering the relative prices of child quality … across siblings, these health shocks can also affect investments in and the outcomes of healthy siblings. This paper uses the …

related to education – health, wealth, occupation, and employment – feature in this correlation. We label these four factors …-third for men, and over two-thirds for women – can be attributed to the correlation of education with health, and of health with … DI receipt. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study for the 1992-2012 period to explore the corresponding roles …

explore potential mechanisms, including differential earnings, health insurance, and health behaviors, using data from the …

We examine the effect of New York City's universal pre-kindergarten program (UPK) on the health and utilization of …

It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and … provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India … lung functioning or health and there is no change in fuel consumption (and presumably greenhouse gas emissions). The …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production … functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments, which are taken as endogenous …

India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this …. This pattern persists when we compare height between siblings, and also holds for health inputs such as vaccinations. Three … patterns in the data indicate that India's culture of eldest son preference plays a key role in explaining the steeper birth …

actigraphy to measure sleep objectively, we find that low-income adults in Chennai, India sleep only 5.5 hours per night on …

(0.6 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years …