Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non …-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …

Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby …

Lack of information about health risks may limit the adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper … health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when … parents are informed about the health risk of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

. Evidence on intervening pathways suggests that health rather than schooling is the most important channel in connecting early …

health capital. Individuals exposed to the war at all ages between birth and adolescence exhibit reduced adult stature and … ; height ; early life ; human capital investments ; Nigeria …

. -- Intergenerational transmission ; early life conditions ; health ; infant mortality ; height ; growth ; income ; education ; public … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

communities and especially the Muslim deficit in parental education predict a Hindu advantage. Alternative outcomes and … literature that debates the importance of socioeconomic status (SES) in determining health and survival. They augment a growing … health, indeed, enough to reverse the SES gradient that is commonly observed. -- Religion ; caste ; gender ; child survival …

investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …

Driven by rapid income growth, labor market transitions in the nature of jobs, and lifestyle factors, there has been a … between labor market engagement and health in developing countries. …