correlations to be genuinely causal. We reexamine the nutrition and cognition link, applying instrumental variable methods to a …

This presentation deals with the following issue: how poverty, poor health, nutrition and care affect child development …

-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru to investigate its effects on nutrition related …Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi …

We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi …-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru. We find that access to insurance reduces childhood … obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …

the World Health Organization reference population. The results of multiple probit regression models indicate a 6 percent …

sample of children 0–59 months old in Bolivia and a rich set of child health and development outcomes including measures from …