Hands-on training in qualitative research in the context of health, nutrition and development. The training included …

We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with important health …

. This paper uses previously unpublished archival data on infant mortality and anthropometric studies of children conducted … mortality, birth weight, child height and adult stature were recorded from approximately 1940 to the late 1960s. While this … period of physical growth was followed by stagnation in heights and an increase in adult male mortality, it appears that the …

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program’s effects on health and … grantwriting assistance. We find evidence of a large drop at the OEO cutoff in mortality rates for children from causes that could …

Both health status and net worth can affect retirement decisions. In some cases, early retirement may be precipitated … by a shock to an individual’s health and/or economic status. The authors examine how health and wealth shocks affect … retirement decisions. They use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to estimate a first-differences model of health and …

This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … employment or not, independent of the number of hours worked. We show that most of the evidence on the negative health impact of … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …

education increases son's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. The estimates are in many cases similar … works through improving children's skills and health. …