health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the … intergenerational mobility in height and years of schooling. The findings show that, on average, male offspring are 2.8 centimeters …

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and …

In this paper, the impact of salinity on maternal and child health in Bangladesh is analyzed using data from the … Bangladesh Demographic Health Surveys. A U-shaped association between drinking water salinity and infant and neonatal mortality … minerals and severely saline water with very high detrimental sodium can be harmful for infant and neonatal health during …

water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions on health and non-health outcomes, ranging from behavior change-such as the …

intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of the ability of girls and unfavorable school environment. There is some …

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital … disaggregated by quintiles of socioeconomic status (SES) for a sample 51 mostly low- and middle-income countries. The index measures …, accounting for roughly one-third of the total variation. On average, human capital outcomes increase with income at roughly the …

how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making. It finds that women's power substantially matters for health and various family and … reproductive outcomes. Women taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in particular for girls' health, but it is worse …

health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand …This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and … by adding a measure of quality-adjusted years of higher education to the original education component, and it includes …

Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample …This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on …, education, market efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions. Based on underlying proxies, the paper constructs indexes …