This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is … instead if their income exceeds the compulsory insurance threshold. Here, premia are based on age and health, individuals may … private insurance coverage on the number of doctor visits, the number of nights spent in a hospital and self-assessed health …

some improvement from coaching-based interventions on mental health and study time, but none of the interventions we … plan to, though our interventions do not alter this tendency. The coaching interventions make some students realize that …

Children in developing countries have deep deficits in math and language. Personalized coaching for teachers has been … proposed as a way of raising teacher quality and child achievement. We designed a coaching program that focused on one aspect … child development and learning. We implemented the coaching program in Ecuador, with 100 1st grade teachers randomly …

We study the effect of peer coaching separately from the effect of training on teachers' implementation of new teaching …, the treatment group received coaching from peers. External observers, blinded to the treatment status, assessed teachers …