We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …

Taiwan, resulting in not only a rapid decline in malaria across time but also elimination of disparity across regions … the health of elderly born in the colonial period. To mitigate potential biases caused by measurement errors and omitted …

children's risk of malaria infection. For identification, we rely on exogenous variation in educational attainment generated by … educational reforms during the 1970s. We use data from a total of four rounds of either Demographic and Health Surveys or Malaria … prophylaxis during pregnancy by between 3.7 and 14.5 percentage points, and their children's probability of sleeping under an …

This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 … and 2015 with its Life History Survey in 2014 to quantify health inequality due to childhood circumstances for which they …

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …

worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health … interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests that both types of interventions may benefit not only child health …

We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental … find that estimates using each approach are remarkably congruent for a wide range of health outcomes. Effect sizes of …