This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …

births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non-IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor market … outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers, it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …

and expected returns for outcomes in the cognitive, socio-emotional and health domains, and we show that this contributes …

In this paper we examine the impact of a tailored health warning on health outcomes. We exploit the design of a …