This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health. …

effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the … kindergarten eligibility. Leveraging these insights, we develop an instrumental variables model that shows that parents' work hours … lead to larger increases in children's BMI z-scores and probabilities of being overweight and obese than those identified …

questions. We overcome typical data limitations in a large-scale field experiment on vaccination (N = 5,324) with a unique … substantial positive spillovers. Our findings demonstrate the great potential of incentives for improving public health and …

incentives can be used to promote healthier sleep habits. To this end, we conducted a field experiment with college students …

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …