substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions …

+ program which provides cash transfers to families with two or more children, and low-income, one-child families. Using a … financial difficulties of families with children. From a policy perspective, the findings indicate that cash transfers can … alleviate child poverty concerns and financial constraints to having children. …

the trade-off between child quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family. We find … children in Interwar Britain, using the Boyd Orr cohort, a survey of predominantly poor families taken in 1937-9. We examine … that birth order and family size have negative effects on the heights of children, but not on their BMI. Household income …

quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed …This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … opportunity to explore the determinants of child health in the era before the welfare state. We examine the trade-off between the …

This paper analyses the association between health outcomes of newborn children and mother's poverty status during … pregnancy. We use a new questionnaire accompanying the GSOEP which collects abundant information on health outcomes. The … findings indicate that there is generally no effect from poverty to health, except on the probability of preterm birth …

This paper examines whether participation in workfare and food grain subsidy programs in India impacts health and … nutritional status of women and children in participating households, using short-term morbidity and body mass index (BMI) as …, at least in states implementing those programs well. For children, we find generally positive impacts of household …