Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

. -- 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 …

This paper examines empirically whether midwifes, as an integral part of the health and family planning programs in … also stay longer in post-primary school. According to the average returns of education in Indonesia, I conclude that family …

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 …

during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less educated, and more likely to have serious health problems, including … positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …

. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … health disparities across education that average 19.3%. …

Vaccine-preventable diseases remain a significant public health concern in Bangladesh. We examine the role of maternal … education in improving immunization rates among Bangladeshi children. We exploit the 1994 Female Secondary School Stipend … Program (FSSSP), which significantly increased education among rural girls, to identify causal effects. Applying a difference …

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of health in the very long run. Using a unique purpose … (IGT) of health and the impact of previous generations' health shocks on socioeconomic outcomes. Our results provide strong … evidence in favour of IGT of health, in particular for males. In contrast to the existing literature that focuses on early life …

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of health in the very long run. Using a unique purpose … (IGT) of health and the impact of previous generations’ health shocks on socioeconomic outcomes. Our results provide strong … evidence in favour of IGT of health, in particular for males. In contrast to the existing literature that focuses on early life …