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 …

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 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 …

public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …