The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health … comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …

sample. The increase in smoking, which is a significant cause of poor infant health, may partly explain why Medicaid …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 …

attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …

those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at … effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects …

those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at … effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … results indicate that exposure to these establishments during childhood and adolescence increases BMI and has negative effects …

smoking and of binge drinking following exogenous changes in social capital tend to support the hypotheses that social capital … will reduce the probability of behaviors entailing a risk of ill health or death …