larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses …

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 …

This paper explores the (late) nutrition-cognition link using novel panel data from India for very young children. We …-up growth. Our analysis also suggests that providing low-caste children with the average nutritional status of their upper …

health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when … parents are informed about the health risk of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than …Lack of information about health risks may limit the adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper …

iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "mid-day meal" on anemia, cognition, and math and reading scores of … primary school children. We conducted a field experiment that randomly provided a one-year supply of DFS at a subsidized price … significantly positive impacts on hemoglobin levels and reduced the prevalence of anemia by 20 percent but these health gains did …