Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth … weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases …

receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … care subsidies on children's weight outcomes. Our instrumental variables estimates suggest that subsidized child care leads … to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children. -- child care ; subsidy …

Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the … home births are widespread. To account for endogeneity in location of birth, we exploit the exogenous variation in distance … from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions …

Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Further, children exposed prenatally to the death of a relative up to four generations … apart are 20 percent more likely to be born low-birth-weight and 11 percent more likely to be hospitalized for conditions …

receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … care subsidies on children's weight outcomes. Our instrumental variables estimates suggest that subsidized child care leads … to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children …

Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the … home births are widespread. To account for endogeneity in location of birth, we exploit the exogenous variation in distance … from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions …

. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study … the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest …

This paper is one of the first to examine the associations between prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes …, specifically the incidence of low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age (SGA), based on a nationally representative … birth record dataset in China. During the sample period in the 1990s, migration was limited in rural China, allowing us to …

year of birth, the incidence of any disability, locomotor disability and polio-related disability declined by 61.4%, 57 …. Heterogeneity analyses show that in general, access to oral vaccines in the year of birth lowers the incidence of disabilities …