Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to … sites to more accurately measure a child's war exposure. War-exposed children in both countries have lower height-for-age Z … instrumental variables strategy. -- child health ; conflict ; economic shocks ; Africa …

on measured health indicators than if they had all brothers (and no sisters). The effects are as large as typical …

Previous studies report that adult height has significant associations with wages even controlling for schooling. But … schooling and height are imperfect measures of adult cognitive skills (“brains”) and strength (“brawn”); further they are not …

supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses …

been argued (a) that average adult height may depend negatively on income inequality; (b) that some measure of inequality … cases, height inequality is unlikely to indicate income inequality, but that (a) and (c) are plausible and worth serious …I explore the relationship between the distribution of adult heights and the distribution of income. It has previously …

company personnel piece-rate payment records, and find a positive correlation. Second, we estimate the impact of a health …

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 …

Driven by rapid income growth, labor market transitions in the nature of jobs, and lifestyle factors, there has been a … between labor market engagement and health in developing countries …

investigates the effect of a health intervention on physical activity, using a temporally randomized offer of malaria testing and …