health behaviour campaigns and the persistence of misinformation. We implement a field experiment among a representative …

Bias among health care providers can lead to poor-quality care and poor health outcomes, and it can exacerbate …

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 …

Inadequate hygiene during menstruation can have severe consequences, such as adverse health effects, lower educational … in rural Bangladesh, we measure social norms in the form of empirical and normative expectations on menstrual health and … hygiene explicitly and relate them to behavior and knowledge. We provide an information intervention on menstrual health and …

: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than their older or younger peers. The difference in height suggests …

Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …

We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing …. In this paper we estimate this average causal effect on health outcomes later in life, by applying instrumental variable …

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 …