health of low income families. A large body of literature evaluates the extent to which the Supplemental Program for Women … estimate the impact of the program on infant health. We find that the implementation of WIC lead to an increase in average …

This paper uses age-at-school-entry policies to identify the effect of female education on fertility and infant health …. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … school entry date. School entry policies affect female education and the quality of a woman's mate and have generally small …

health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure …

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …

-educated caregivers have the knowledge and skills to safeguard their children's health and stimulate their cognitive development. In …

local violence prior to conception has detrimental effects on infant health at birth. The results suggest that loss of women …'s human capital and deterioration of mental health are potential underlying mechanisms behind the adverse effects …

This study investigates whether rights to paid parental leave improve pediatric health, as measured by birth weights … senior citizens, whose health is not expected to be affected by parental leave. More generous leave rights are found to … may be a cost-effective method of bettering child health …

implying that in the past health inequality was transmitted across generations. I also show that" children born at the … health of past populations therefore originated in part in the first days of life." …

. For adults, neighborhood environments matter for their health and well-being but have more ambiguous impacts on labor …