This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural … records of all refugee arrivals and birth events between 2010 and 2017 show that children born to mothers who were exogenously …

attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity …

. Based on it, we designed the agriculture-household model, which predicts that health outcomes of child is dependent on …

regarded as being plausibly causal. We identify health, human capital, labour market outcomes and noncognitive traits as … channels through which early life exposure to passive smoking increases the likelihood of being in energy poverty. Our results … have important implications for early life interventions to address the deficits caused by exposure to passive smoking. …

the intergenerational associations between NRPS and health among grandchildren. We find NRPS substantially increases child …

number of children ever born to a woman. At the same time, it increases the number of chil- dren of a woman who have died … the biologi- cal rationale for postpartum abstinence as a means to protect child health, while aligning with …

a public health crisis. Using the Flint Water Crisis as a natural experiment, we estimate the effect of in utero … exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data, we use a … effect on the length of gestation or rate of prematurity. However, these effects are larger among children born to black …

2008 recession on the health of immigrant newborns in Italy. Health at birth (e.g., low birth weight) of immigrants … deteriorated more than health at birth of Italians. The negative effects on immigrants are not equally distributed across …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …