We evaluate the effects of home visiting targeted towards disadvantaged first-time mothers on maternal and child health … administrative health data. In a context in which the target group has comprehensive health care access, we find that home visiting … has no effects on most types of health utilization, health behaviors, and physical health measures. However, the …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …

and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and …) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health …

This study analyzes the role of education in the outcomes of the reform of the Japanese annual health checkup program … changes in health behaviors and outcomes only among university graduates who were at a relatively high risk of metabolic …

larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses …

on the health of young adults. We find that an additional $ 100 in the average annual EITC exposure between ages 0 and 18 … increases the likelihood of reporting very good or excellent health by 2.7 percentage points and decreases the likelihood of …, and increases in health insurance coverage are channels through which the EITC improves health. …

We examine the impact of health and economic conditions at birth on the adult outcomes of child immigrants using the … Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study. Our sample consists of children from 39 countries who were brought to the United …-rated health or labour market participation in adulthood, and there is no statistically significant relationship between GDP per …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

always hold. In Botswana, children aged 6-60 months are eligible for monthly food ration provided through the health care … facilities. Notwithstanding this, child health as measured by the three anthropometric indicators: stunting (low height for age … effect on health. Using the 2009/10 Botswana Core Welfare Indicator Survey (BCWIS) data we estimate the random effects model …