Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

Long-term follow-up of early childhood health interventions is important for human capital accumulation. We provide … experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition …

a comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health … experiment in Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either …

particularly relevant for health products in developing countries where both informational campaigns and price subsidies are common …

these health gains did not translate into significant impacts on cognitive performance, test scores, and school attendance … school-based health programs are cost-effective and scalable intervention to reduce anemia among school children in resource …

The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting … economists can clarify regarding the causal relationships between economic development, health outcomes, and reproductive … under which people live and their expected life span and health status refers to “health production functions.” The …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

Barker’s fetal origins hypothesis suggests a strong relationship between in utero conditions, health and overall child … child health in rural India. We find that drought experienced in utero has detrimental effects on nutritional status of … vulnerability to negative rainfall shock may result into improved health and higher human capital accumulation in rain …

The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting … economists can clarify regarding the causal relationships between economic development, health outcomes, and reproductive … under which people live and their expected life span and health status refers to "health production functions." The …