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 investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …

’s health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in mother’s education, income and public health provision that occur …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …

and public health environment into which children are born using individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to changes in the socioeconomic … data. We find that children are more likely to bear the penalty exerted by poor maternal health if they are conceived or …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to changes in education, income … deviations from mean height. We show that improving maternal education, raising income and improving the supply or effectiveness … are able to make in child health. We also find that income and the infectious disease environment in the mother’s birth …

decades later. Using variation across ethnicity and cohort, we identify significant long-run impacts on human health capital …

Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non …-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …

Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby …

Lack of information about health risks may limit adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper … studies the effect of nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, child health, and cognitive ability of … hemoglobin level for anemia, we find statistically insignificant treatment effects on dietary improvements, child health, and …

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. …

This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in … regional variation in the timing of this shock to identify its effects. We examine the effects on the adult height, health, and … and 1890, causing major income losses among wine growing families. Because the insects spread slowly from the southern …