concentrated on the children with low socioeconomic status (SES) background. These results indicate that fetal insults such as … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also … complicate the efforts of policy-makers in improving the human capital, health, and labor market outcomes of low-SES individuals …

prioritizing children and a long-term horizon in public health planning and response may be critical to mitigating the adverse … when the global burden of mental health illness is also on the rise. We examine the causal impact of early life exposure to … warfare on long-term mental health, using novel data on the amount of bombs dropped in German cities by Allied Air Forces …

are mainly observed in children born to mothers with low socioeconomic status, suggesting that credit constraints may be a …

Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides … consequences of stress induced by these attacks on newborn health. We use two approaches to examine this question. First, we …, led to significant terror and disruptions in daily life over a three-week period. We compare birth outcomes of children …

Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we exploit exogenous variation in deployment assignment to estimate the effect of combat …