implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision …

This chapter surveys experience with performance pay in developing country health programs. In doing so, it focuses on … outline. We consider these to be important constraints to the design of better performance incentives in low- and middle-income … country health programs. …

rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys which link an individual woman's fertility outcomes to her HIV status based on …

This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in … regional variation in the timing of this shock to identify its effects. We examine the effects on the adult height, health, and … and 1890, causing major income losses among wine growing families. Because the insects spread slowly from the southern …

lifetime. Delayed first births, in turn, seem to have enabled young women to obtain more education and to work more and live …

We investigate the childhood determinants of adult height in populations, focusing on the respective roles of income … not only responsible for mortality in childhood but also leaves a residue of long-term health risks for survivors, risks … that express themselves in adult height, as well as in late-life disease. Across a range of European countries and the …

This paper estimates the impact of armed conflict on subsequent health outcomes using detailed geographic information … war-exposed children subsequently have lower height-for-age Z-scores, and impacts using GPS information are 87-188% larger …

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …