quality and no impact on child development nor on children's health status. Our results point to the importance of workload … health care services. The program changed the allocation of time for community health workers, asking them to carry out early …

health gains did not translate into statistically significant impacts on cognition and test scores. While exploring the … iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "midday meal" on anemia, cognition and math and reading outcomes of … primary school children. We conducted a field experiment that randomly provided one-year supply of DFS at a subsidized price …

health gains did not translate into statistically significant impacts on cognition and test scores. While exploring the … iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "midday meal" on anemia, cognition and math and reading outcomes of … primary school children. We conducted a field experiment that randomly provided one-year supply of DFS at a subsidized price …

-educated caregivers have the knowledge and skills to safeguard their children's health and stimulate their cognitive development. In … more likely to marry a partner with tertiary education and their children have better early childhood development outcomes ….25 standard deviations of test scores once children are of school age. The primary mechanism seems to be that more …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor in- comes, with greater …

of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early … referrals) recommended for lead-poisoned children. Using linked administrative data from Charlotte, NC, we compare outcomes for … children who are similar across observable characteristics but differ in eligibility for intervention due to blood lead test …