A growing literature documents the links between long-term outcomes and health in the fetal
period, infancy, and early childhood. Much of this literature focuses on rich countries, but …

Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility,
and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an …

Adolescent growth and social development shape the early development of offspring from
preconception through to the post-partum period through distinct processes in males and …

We study long-term and intergenerational effects of the 1970s Indonesian school
construction program. Exploiting variation across birth cohorts and districts in the number of …

A sound understanding of poverty traps—defined as poverty that is self-reinforcing due to
the poor's equilibrium behaviors—and their underlying mechanisms is fundamentally …

Background Globally, the status of women's health falls short of its potential. In addition to
the deleterious ethical and human rights implications of this deficit, the negative economic …

We analyze long-term impacts of the 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War, providing the first
evidence of intergenerational impacts. War exposure among women results in reduced adult …

We undertake two calculations, one for all develo** countries, the other for 34 develo**
countries that together account for 90% of the world's stunted children. The first asks how …

This study examines how maternal education shapes the life and health of their children.
Causal effects are identified from a Danish school reform that increased minimum …

Biases from truncation caused by coresidency restriction have been a challenge for
research on intergenerational mobility. Estimates of intergenerational schooling persistence …