economics, psychology, policy

Why Is Infant Mortality Higher in Boys Than in Girls? A New Hypothesis Based on Preconception Environment and Evidence From a Large Sample ...

Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries Janet Currie, Tom Vogl NBER Working Paper No. 18371 Issued in September ...

Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass Janet Currie and Reed Walker American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(1)...

Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions Steckel, R.H. Special Issue on Heights and Human Welfare Explorations in ...

Investing in Health to Improve the Wellbeing of the Disadvantaged: Reversing the Argument of the Marmot Reports David Canning and Diana Bows...

IZA DP No. 6296 Iris Kesternich, Bettina Siflinger, James P. Smith, Joachim K. Winter: The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health ...

A very important resource for cross country research on early life conditions (and economic development in general) is the following infant...

IZA DP No. 6117 Antonio Filippin, Marco Paccagnella: Family Background, Self-Confidence and Economic Outcomes Abstract: In this paper we ...

For a summary of Barker's work see http://www.thebarkertheory.org/ . Geary's Orla Doyle and Colm Harmon are also speaking at this ev...

A report published in 2006 by the Institute for Public Health in Ireland established that there were substantial inequalities in birth weig...

The positive correlation between height and intelligence has been documented many times. It is attributed generally to deficits in early lif...

A number of studies have suggested that a person's height is associated with depression with taller people being less likely to be depre...

New NBER working paper by Douglas Almond & Janet Currie Abstract: This chapter seeks to set out what Economists have learned about the ...

Patterns in- and correlates of- height is something that has featured in this blog regularly. Seeing this is the New Year I thought I would ...

nice VOX interview with Douglas Almond link here

A recent NBER working paper (Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth, by Chay, Gur...

Professor Jim Heckman recently gave lectures at the Irish Economics Association in Cork and UCD. Although the focus of these talks was on hu...

The paper by Christopher Ruhm (Are Recessions Good For Your Health?) has been mentioned several times on this blog . However, this analysis ...