. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that health rather than schooling is the most important channel in connecting early …

therefore at the dynamics of height and weight. Considering HA a child's health stock and WA nutritional investment, we develop …-term and yield higher returns if they reach babies in the early months of infancy. -- Child health ; Health production ; Height …Height-for-age (HA) and weight-for-age (WA) of children are standard measures to study the determinants of stunting and …

investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …

investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …

data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro-cyclical. A one … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health … evidence of three channels that can explain the overall negative effect of unemployment on new-born health: maternal stress …

We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …

several health outcomes and find that, in general, increased openness is associated with lower rates of infant mortality and …, but not all, of the positive association between openness and health may result from more open economies receiving more …

This paper estimates the determinants of child mortality and child health allowing for the possibility that samples of … random-effects structure on the error correlation matrix for the set of fertility, mortality and health behaviors. Fertility … datasets studied, and fertility and mortality selection is found significant in the determination of child height in Zambia …

across gender, rural/urban and education stratifications. An exception is low-caste groups where there is some evidence that … post-period average ATT rose. The eradication of polio saved a significant number of lives and brought measurable health …