correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that it cannot be due solely to …

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …

whether maternal perceptions of neighborhood quality affect children's bodyweight outcomes, and whether racial and ethnic … quality is not significantly related to children's bodyweight. However, one particular characteristic, namely whether or not … robust and significant effects on the BMI-percentile of the children, though it has less robust effects on the risk of …

has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …

Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children … schools and day care play a potentially important role in determining children's health status …. For children overall, obesity rates have tripled from 5% in the early 1970s to about 15% by the early 2000s. For …

.S. on maternal health behaviors and infant health outcomes. Using multi-state, multi-year difference-in-differences analyses …, we estimated effects of state EITC generosity on maternal health behaviors, birth weight and gestation weeks. We find … little difference in maternal health behaviors associated with state-level EITC. In contrast, results for key infant health …

to improve 12 maternal and child health and education indicators, with the size of the subsequent year's block grant …. We find that the incentivized villages performed better on health than the non-incentivized villages, particularly in … to be more efficient spending of block grants, and led to an increase in labor from health providers, who are partially …

capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from … from an experiment that randomly assigned children under the age of 6 years to “early” or “late” treatment groups. Although … the early treatment group received twice as much in transfers, we find no difference between children in the two groups on …

distribution, where the health consequences are especially severe. Lastly, we model time-inconsistent preferences by computing …