We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in … utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …

. -- fertility ; family planning ; health and development ; program evaluation ; Bangladesh …The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health … health checkups, which may have induced behavior changes that improved children's health and cognitive development, including … development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD …

differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health … health checkups, which may have induced behavior changes that improved children's health and cognitive development, including … development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD …

, improvements in the education structure will add about two million persons to the US labor force and about half a million persons … educational structure of the population and of policies which address the health impediments for labor force participation. Of the … educational scenarios that we evaluate, increasing the number of persons who achieve more than lower education has the strongest …

expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …

analyzing the effect of oil production on different indicators of the development level of municipalities: school enrollment …

illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia. …

illustrate its feasibility with an example from the education sector in Zambia. …