of housing and housing improvement programs on health and welfare. In this paper the authors help fill this gap by …Despite the importance of housing for people's well-being, there has been little work done to assess the causal impact … investigating the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican government to replace dirt floors with cement floors on child health …

income, financial security, economic optimism, satisfaction with living standards and health services, social capital …

The Millennium Development Goals set quantitative targets for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education … in health, education, and the environment. Both estimates yield a figure in the range of $40-$70 billion in additional … health or education and related outcomes, or the relationship between investment and growth, the sensitivity of the results …

The authors investigate the impact of international migration on child health outcomes in rural Mexico using a … migration may affect health outcomes and find evidence that migration raises health knowledge in addition to the direct effect … on wealth. However they also find that preventative health care, such as breastfeeding and vaccinations, is less likely …

applied to evaluate the effects on children's health opportunities of Mexico's Oportunidades program, one of the largest … conditional cash transfer programs for poor households in the world. The evidence from this program shows that gains in health …