reduces individual mental health, plausibly as a side effect of allocating more time to work and less time to sleep and … exercise. We do not find a significant difference in the impact on mental health across population groups, suggesting an … could substantially reduce the damage to mental health while maintaining most of the positive effects on employment. …

-scores). Using the experience of the Kashmir insurgency, I find that stress during pregnancy and the limited access to health … link between children's health at birth, mother's health during pregnancy, and children's height in the context of negative … differences are small. Finally, a robust finding in the health literature is that shorter children perform worse in schools, in …

Child health, particularly long-term nutritional status, is closely related to the characteristics of families … increasing the likelihood that a child can access high quality health-care and other services that affect health status. Access …, particularly the education level of the mother or caregiver. In Peru, despite a dramatic increase in investment in health during …

In using spatial variations of the conflict experience in Afghanistan, I estimate mortality and health risks for adults …, and thus a casual effect of war on these health outcomes. I find limited support that adults are more likely to die in … areas more affected by the conflict than others. However, I find pronounced effects on adult health outcomes, e.g. adults …

. Additionally, I find that stillbirths are more likely and more women are currently pregnant in these provinces. These two fertility …

as an explanation of the paradox. Using pooled health surveys from 1993 to 2005 and a pseudo-panel selection model, this …