That prenatal events can have life-long consequences is now well established.
Nevertheless, research on the fetal origins hypothesis is flourishing and has expanded to …

This chapter seeks to set out what economists have learned about the effects of early
childhood influences on later life outcomes, and about ameliorating the effects of negative …

How do parental investments respond to health endowments at birth? Recent studies have
combined insights from an earlier theoretical literature on household resource allocation …

Using national data from the US, we find that poor health at birth and limited parental
resources (including low income, lack of health insurance, and unwanted pregnancy) …

In the epidemiological literature, the fetal origins hypothesis associated with David J. Barker
posits that chronic, degenerative conditions of adult health, including heart disease and type …

Scientific discoveries over the past two decades have transformed the way in which
researchers, policymakers, and the public think about early childhood. For example, recent …

THE CHILD DEVELOPMENT SUPPLEMENT TO THE PANEL STUDY OF INCOME
DYNAMICS 1997 USER GUIDE Table of Contents Page 1 THE CHILD DEVELOPMENT …

This article examines the long‐term impacts on health and healthy behaviour of two of the
oldest and most widely cited US early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of …

The long-term effects of school-age pregnancy were investigated in a 20-year follow-up of a
cohort of women who were pregnant adolescents in the late 1960s. Of the 149 living young …

Child Well-Being and the Role of Public Policy Page 1 THE Edited by Samuel Berlinski and
Norbert Schady DEVELOPMENT IN THE AMERICAS Child Well-Being and the Role of …