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 …

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 …

education, employment, disability, income and income mobility, and identify large impacts on each. We then examine how racial … findings demonstrate causal effects of early life health on economic mobility and the importance of an investment …

when opening to trade and foreign direct investment on employment, income distribution, and poverty. The first phase of the … liberalization focusing on employment, unemployment, wages, productivity, and work conditions that are related to trends in …

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 …