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 …

fathers) has adverse impacts on child growth, survival, and education. Impacts vary with age of exposure. For mother and child … overweight, earlier age at first birth, and lower educational attainment. Exposure to a primary education program mitigates … impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …

line with this, increases in outpatient procedures, prenatal care visits, health-education activities and home visits by …We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal … driving mechanisms. We find sharp increases in coverage of primary health facilities with GPs and outreach workers and, in …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data …

We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage …

births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non-IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor market … outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers, it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …