We present findings from a field experiment conducted at 40 elementary schools involving 8,000 children and 400 …,000 child-day observations, which tested whether providing short-run incentives can create habit formation in children. Over a …. Relative to an average baseline rate of 39%, providing small incentives doubled the fraction of children eating at least one …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices, and thereby to the … production of suboptimal levels of health. This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which … consequently health. These increases are funded by an increase in male labor supply. We consider and rule out alternative …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional … pediatrics. We discuss current challenges to the field and suggest avenues for future research. -- health ; prevention …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

impact of changes within a program, the Danish nurse home visiting program, on child and maternal health. We exploit … variation in children's age at strike start, we show that early, but not later, strike exposure increases child and mother … contacts to health professionals in the first four years after birth. Forgoing an early nurse visit also increases the …