This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status …. Based on Demographic and Health Survey data from Tanzania with the migration history of mothers and fathers, the analysis … exploits geographical, time, and cohort variations using shock intensity and distance from refugee camps to instrument …

We study how income shock affect due to weather shock causally impacts the birth outcomes. We selected households … efficiency loss attributed to weather shock for major food crops to the extent of 20%. However, we find that access to technology … provides resilience against weather shock, therefore, causing the heterogeneity in vulnerability across farming households …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway …

-2000, this paper studies how a severe parental health shock affects children's school achievements. We use coarsened exact … survival rates to measure the size of the health shock. We findrobust negative effects of a parental health shock on children … have devastating effects not only on the individual but the entire household, including children. If a parental health …

Whether and how a paternal health shock cascades across multiple generations to affect descendant health is … paternal health shock affects grandchildren's longevity in a unique setting where the ancestral stressor is the grandfather … understudied even though a link between ancestral living conditions and descendant health may constitute an important source of …

brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the cohorts born in …