The effects of public investments aimed at directly improving children's health are theoretically ambiguous, since the outcomes also depend on indirect effects through parental inputs. The authors investigate the role of such inputs in influencing the incidence of child health gains from access...

This study proposes a method for testing whether transient and chronic poverty share common determinants. The authors define transient poverty as the contribution of consumption variability over time to expected consumption poverty. Using household panel data for rural China the authors test...