This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health … Malawi which provides mothers with information on infant nutrition and health. It finds that the intervention results in … increases in household food consumption, particularly of protein-rich foods by children. The increased household consumption is …

food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns …

about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These …

, water quality, and health outcomes of Uruguay's nationalization of water services. An important advantage of focusing on …

positive wage effect of about the same size. Smoking and drinking do not affect the wages of females. …

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP … part attributable to differences in coefficients. Our results reveal that the major part of the gender smoking differential … is attributable to differences in coefficients indicating substantial differences in the smoking behaviour between men …

findings suggest lower ability bias in within-twin pair regressions than pooled regressions. Third, using data on twins smoking … we show smoking reflects family background and using it as an instrument exacerbates ability bias. …

focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and maternal labor supply net of other maternal behavior and child … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child …