, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi …-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru to investigate its effects on nutrition related … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …

We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi …, such as children's regular growth checks-ups and deworming treatments, the duration of breastfeeding, and a substitution of …

malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub … information from GIS and malaria databases to construct variables that capture additional components of children's geographic …

This paper investigates whether a large-scale deworming intervention aimed at primary school pupils in western Kenya … had long-term effects on young children in the region. The paper exploits positive externalities from the program to … estimate the impact on younger children who did not receive treatment directly. Ten years after the intervention, large …