This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …

This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status …. Based on Demographic and Health Survey data from Tanzania with the migration history of mothers and fathers, the analysis … treatment. The findings show that children who were born to parents who were living closer to refugee camps during their early …

outcomes in children. Emerging literature describes the negative effects of poor sanitation on child growth. However, limited … water contaminated with E. coli could affect the nutritional status of children through various possible biological pathways … uptake and absorption. This study explores the relationship between contaminated water and stunting prevalence among children …

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital … the expected future human capital of children born today, following the methodology of the World Bank Human Capital Index …

how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a … reproductive outcomes. Women taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in particular for girls' health, but it is worse …-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making. It finds that women's power substantially matters for health and various family and …

health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand …This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and … by adding a measure of quality-adjusted years of higher education to the original education component, and it includes …

substantial changes in household size and composition, with a net movement of primarily school-age children from larger ineligible … declined by four percentage points (or 15 percent) within six months of program rollout, and the poverty headcount at the …