's counter-factual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and …

insensitive. Finally, we find no evidence that subsidy-induced healthcare utilization improves children's health outcome … discontinuity design by exploiting a subsidy that reduces patient cost-sharing for children aged under 3 in Taiwan. Using … longitudinal medical claims of over 410,000 children, we find a modest price elasticity of outpatient expenditure (e.g. -0.12 for …

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of … their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic … health has been quite limited; and (ii) provides evidence of significant synergies among adequate food, child care, and … environment and health …

This paper studies the effects of day care exposure on behavioral disorders and mental and physical health at various … effects on child health at different ages. We find a positive cumulative impact on behavior at primary school ages, in … particular for children from low socio-economic status households, and substitution of infections from primary school ages to low …

More than 20 percent of children under the age of 5 in Tajikistan are stunted. A large literature finds that stunting … health-related factors. However, quantifying these interactions is usually not possible due to the difficulty of collecting … consumed, food diversity, access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, access to health services, and care …