reverting negative gradients in early life health and eventual fertility. These new stylised facts and results suggest the …Targeted treatments of newborns with delicate health stocks have been shown to have considerable returns in terms of … targeted neonatal health policies based on birth weight assignment rules. While we observe well-known first generation impacts …

associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show … a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left …-behind children relative to children who migrate with their parents. Additional results from a standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …

pregnancy and nursing. Comparing adopting and biological parents will therefore elicit how much pregnancy to non-pregnancy …

health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy …We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health. …

provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy are plausible …We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required … deaths, we identified small but statistically significant positive effects of the policy on neonatal health. We further …

associations with long-term health, educational and labour-market outcomes. This paper exploits intergenerational information on … three generations (grandparents-parents-children) to explore the effects of parental education and different parental …. We employ rich intergenerational data drawn from the US National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and a …