Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal … site opened or closed within one mile of their home. I find that children who were exposed prenatally to industrial …

This study uses linked administrative data on live births, hospital stays, and census records for children born in … Hungary between 2006 and 2011 to examine the relationship between poor housing quality and the health of newborns and children … disadvantaged children, 20-25% of whom live in extremely poorquality homes. Next, we provide evidence that poor housing quality is …

height is set by the balance between food intake and charges to disease in early childhood, it is informative about economic …, the relationship between childhood conditions and adult height has become an important focus in the study of the … relationship between health and wealth. Here I follow one of the tributaries of this main stream. A relationship between income and …

height is set by the balance between food intake and charges to disease in early childhood, it is informative about economic …, the relationship between childhood conditions and adult height has become an important focus in the study of the … relationship between health and wealth. Here I follow one of the tributaries of this main stream. A relationship between income and …

two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population …

show that the functional extinction of vultures in India increased human mortality because of a negative shock to … sanitation. Vultures are efficient scavengers and feed only on carrion. In India, a country with over 500 million livestock …