children's health and education in Indonesia. We mobilize several data sources to construct a dataset of more than 32 … needed to provide core inputs for children's health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time … spent with children, which is also a critical input into children's development. The net impact is therefore theoretically …

paper examines how the temporary migration of parents for the sole purpose of work affects the health outcomes of children … health used, height-for-age, serves as a proxy for stunting. The evidence suggests that whether parental migration is … beneficial or deleterious to child health depends on which parent moved. In particular, migration of the mother has an adverse …

public service delivery and maternal and child health outcomes. The programme had a strong focus on ensuring the … children at baseline. At midline, we find that the mobilization effort alone had a significant impact on the performance of … village-based health providers. We detect economically large improvements in pregnancy and well-baby visits by Lady Health …

This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young … Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important …

In 2010, the G8 placed renewed focus on maternal health via the Muskoka Initiative by committing to spend an additional … US$5 billion on maternal, newborn, and child health before 2015. Following the end of the Millennium Development Goals … and the advent of the Sustainable Development Goals, maternal health issues have continued to feature prominently on the …

importance of WASH services for public health outcomes, the effectiveness of WASH aid should also be evaluated in terms of its … impact on health outcomes. This is especially important in low- and middle-income countries where achieving sustained … improvements in child health outcomes remains a challenge. This paper uses geocoded sub-national data on the location of WASH aid …

The World Bank's health sector projects in Timor-Leste - the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and … the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project - have been among the few successful operations it has … resistance to the World Bank's health policy agenda compared to its policy agenda in other sectors. In terms of wider lessons, we …

proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I …