Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

Childhood obesity around the world is an escalating problem that is especially detrimental as its effects carry on into … Longitudinal Survey of Youth to estimate the effects of television fast-food restaurant advertising on children and adolescents … being overweight. A ban on these advertisements would reduce the number of overweight children ages 3-11 in a fixed …

recent studies have suggested, parents favor healthier children. Children with poor health are found to receive fewer … children with poor health, and raise doubts about the utility of human capital models to explain birth weight disparities in … sample of 8,550 children and 1,450 twins from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort to investigate whether, as …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … health outcomes and the intergenerational transmission of obesity. … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less …

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 estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher … childhood ; education ; health ; Taiwan …

We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …

impact of changes within a program, the Danish nurse home visiting program, on child and maternal health. We exploit … variation in children's age at strike start, we show that early, but not later, strike exposure increases child and mother … contacts to health professionals in the first four years after birth. Forgoing an early nurse visit also increases the …

We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … VLBW cutoff have better short- and long-term health, and higher math test scores in 9th grade. We next investigate …

of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early … referrals) recommended for lead-poisoned children. Using linked administrative data from Charlotte, NC, we compare outcomes for … children who are similar across observable characteristics but differ in eligibility for intervention due to blood lead test …