Evidence shows that pollution exposure early in life is detrimental to near-term health, and an increasing body of … evidence suggests that early-childhood health influences health and human capital outcomes later in life. This article reviews …

We investigate the health consequences of changes in the supply of fast food using the exact geographical location of …

This chapter provides an overview of the literature on child health in developed countries. I first lay out a simple … economic model of the demand for child health inputs, and discuss whether the evidence is consistent with that model. Next, two … main causes of market failure in the market for child health inputs — lack of information and externalities — are analyzed …

deterioration in local amenities, which may include increases in crime, noise, traffic and declines in health. Using a Rosen …

A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal period, infancy, and early … of data and identification to study the long reach of childhood health in developing countries. Health in early life may … be a more significant determinant of adult outcomes in these countries because health insults are more frequent, the …

We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … interpret our results using a model in which investments in health capital are affected by both resource constraints and a human …