We show that children who are born at the weekend or just before are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's development … for a sample of uncomplicated births from low educated mothers. We find that breastfeeding has large effects on children …

for age in a semi-urban setting in Northern India. We use instrumental variables to control for endogeneity of sanitation …

India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16. Outcomes are measured as multidimensional … women's constraints on child outcomes using nationally representative household Demographic and Health Survey data from … deprivations, utilizing UNICEF's Multidimensional Overlapping Deprivation Analysis index, incorporating deficiencies in children …

breastfeeding on children’s cognitive development but no effects on health or non-cognitive development during the period of …We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children …

literature, we find no statistically significant impact of breastfeeding on a number of health outcomes, but we see an … improvement in child emotional development and maternal mental health. …

quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations … various measures of child health. The results indicate that children exposed to higher concentrations of agrichemicals during …

scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today …This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main … establishing countries were engaged in during India's colonial history. The results are robust to a series of checks for instrument …

quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations … various measures of child health. The results indicate that children exposed to higher concentrations of agrichemicals during …

experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition … lunches to reduce anemia among school children. After four years of treatment, treated children, on average, have higher …Long-term follow-up of early childhood health interventions is important for human capital accumulation. We provide …

Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices, and thereby to the … production of suboptimal levels of health. This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which …, over a six-month period, provided mothers of young infants with information on child nutrition without supplying any …