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 …

Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the
developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which …

Nearly a third of the world's rural population does not live near a paved road, and it is widely
believed that this limits their access to economic opportunities. Using a natural experiment …

I present new evidence from Africa that droughts are an important component of long‐run
variation in health human capital. Using Census data, I estimate effects of early childhood …

We explore how early-life shocks interact with subsequent human capital investments to
influence children's long-term outcomes. Using large-scale administrative data from …

We study the impact of a severe drought on children's educational outcomes in rural
Maharashtra, a state in central India. Using pooled cross section data on children's test …

We investigate whether exposure to rainfall shocks affects the experience of physical
intimate partner violence (P-IPV) among women in rural areas of the Peruvian Andes. Using …

A growing body of work suggests that health may be transferred across generations. The
aim of this paper is to examine the mechanisms that might account for observed …

This study explores the effect of early-life rainfall shocks on the long-run performance of
children of different genders and possible mechanisms. Using data from a nationwide …

This paper evaluates the effect of a national salt iodization program on the cognition of
school-aged children in China. We focus on the role of gender preferences. Linking pre …