We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal health. In Michigan births 1989 …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food …

Birth weight has emerged as the leading indicator of infant health and welfare and the central focus of infant health … policy. This is because low birth weight (LBW) infants experience severe health and developmental difficulties that can … impose enormous costs on society. But would the prevention of LBW generate equally sizable cost savings and health …

A growing economics literature establishes a causal link between in utero shocks and health and human capital in … background and county of residence in early childhood to adult health and economic outcomes. The identification comes from …

This paper examines the links between the disease environment around the time of a woman's birth, and her health at the …