This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …

findings demonstrate causal effects of early life health on economic mobility and the importance of an investment …

Interventions that improve childhood health directly improve the quality of life and, in addition, have multiplier … health. To support a justice argument for such modification, we show how the current global economic order may contribute to … perpetuating poverty and poor health in less-developed countries. …

and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive, socio-emotional and health domains, and we show that this contributes …

health capital. Individuals exposed to the war at all ages between birth and adolescence exhibit reduced adult stature and …

We estimate the health costs of supply-side barriers to accessing medical care. The setting is Colombia, where citizens … have a constitutional right to health care, but insurance companies that manage delivery impose restrictions on access. We … use administrative data on judicial claims for health as a proxy for unmet demand. We validate this using the register …

We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …

of food within the household, and in the gains from the food subsidy? Third, does food spending impact on child health …