The 1994 discovery of arsenic in groundwater in Bangladesh prompted a massive public health campaign that led 20% of …

Lead poisoning has well-known impacts for the developing brain of young children, with a large literature documenting … outcomes of Flint public school children. We leverage parallel causal identification strategies, a between-district synthetic …-age children. These findings suggest that cost estimates which rely only on the negative impact of direct lead exposure …

from drinking water while in utero. We find small effects of drinking water contamination on all children, but large and …

provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination … Survey reveals the following: 1. Average nutrient intakes of young children are well above recommended dietary standards …, with the exception of iron. 2. Average nutrient intakes for children in households of lower economic status are very …

Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who … and children's food intake, weight, and food security? We use the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to … examine these questions for a representative sample of young children and their providers. We find that program eligibility …