Health at birth is an important predictor of long-term outcomes, including education, income,
and disability. Recent evidence suggests that maternal disadvantage leads to worse health …

In this review, we discuss three major contributions economists have made to our
understanding of the relationship between the environment and individual well-being. First …

The grassroots movement that placed environmental justice issues on the national stage
around 1980 was soon followed up by research documenting the correlation between …

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 …

This paper investigates the effect of low emission zones on air quality and birth outcomes in
Germany. The staggered introduction of the policy measure creates a credible natural …

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 …

This paper examines the long-term impacts of early childhood exposure to air pollution on
adult outcomes using US administrative data. We exploit changes in air pollution driven by …

We make use of a new data resource—merged birth and school records for all children born
in Florida from 1992 to 2002—to study the relationship between birth weight and cognitive …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and
between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored in the …

The first part of the lecture will review some of the evidence about the determinants of health
at birth. I argue that individuals may start with very different endowments at birth because of …