sample of children 0–59 months old in Bolivia and a rich set of child health and development outcomes including measures from … (SD) in height for age and weight for age z-scores respectively, between children in the top and bottom quintile of the … expenditure distribution. Children in the top quintile are less likely to have iron deficiency (11 pp) and anemia (17 pp), whereas …

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

country`s health infrastructure that was instrumental in increasing preventive and primary health care expenditures. Using … empirical evidence, this paper discusses the effect of this expansion in health infrastructure on child nutrition in Peru, as …-poor bias. The estimated coefficient for health infrastructure in less endowed districts is 10 times higher than that in the …

We review human studies on the relation between acute exposures to prenatal famine and adult physical and mental health … associations between prenatal famine and adult body size, diabetes, and schizophrenia. For other measures of adult health, findings …

Objectives: Food insecurity is an important public health problem facing children in the United States. While a number … children’s health and health care use outcomes.Methods: We use nationally representative data from the 2013-2016 waves of the … of previous studies suggest that food insecurity has negative impacts on health, these studies have not dealt carefully …