We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi … obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru. We find that access to insurance reduces childhood …

explore if this policy is associated with changes in inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity at age 10/11 by area … level deprivation. Data on childhood overweight and obesity came from the National Child Measurement Programme for 2011 … childhood overweight and obesity rates between Gateshead and five other local authorities in the North-East of England which did …

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …

Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn’t found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite … the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … employment and obesity in children aged 3-17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … employment and obesity in children aged 3 - 17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …

consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of …This study explores whether hospitals with higher increases in obesity levels have higher CS rates and the … specialization. And it creates a measure of hospital-level obesity, based on the fraction of obesity-related discharges for women of …

obese, yet a third of Chinese children remain underweight. Drawing on six national surveys of children’s health conducted …Economic growth over the past three decades has greatly improved nutrition and the standard of living of the Chinese …. Increasingly, though, the Chinese are becoming heavier. As many as a quarter of Chinese school-age urban boys are overweight or …