The survival and nutrition of children and, to a lesser extent, adolescents have improved
substantially in the past two decades. Improvements have been linked to the delivery of …

Health and well-being during childhood are vital for shaping human capital accumulation. In
India, exposure to pollution is increasingly one of the greatest public health challenges …

The Young Lives wealth index is intended to be the primary measure of socio-economic
status of households within the Young Lives sample. The construction of the index draws on …

The association between test scores in primary school and college attendance, and how this
association differs by socioeconomic status (SES), remains an open question in low-and …

Background Food insecurity, poverty and exposure to infectious disease are well‐
established drivers of malnutrition in children in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Early development of …

Introduction Reducing stunting is an important part of the global health agenda. Despite
likely changes in risk factors as children age, determinants of stunting are typically analysed …

Using longitudinal data from four countries–Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam–we show that
early childhood stunting is highly persistent as measured by the association between …

This study explores the relationship between parental educational similarity—educational
concordance (homogamy) or discordance (heterogamy)—and children's health outcomes …

China has made significant progress in enhancing maternal and child health over the past
70 years but geographic-based disparities in early childhood development remain. This …

Large gaps in cognition and language on the Bayley‐III between the top and bottom
household wealth quartiles in 1,330 children aged 6–42 months in a representative sample …