effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …

, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …

We study the effect of health insurance expansion on nutrition-related children's health outcomes. We exploit quasi … obesity and exerts positive and economically significant effects on some preventive health care utilization and behaviours …, such as children's regular growth checks-ups and deworming treatments, the duration of breastfeeding, and a substitution of …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … employment and obesity in children aged 3 - 17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …