Some environmental influences, including intentional interventions, have shown persistent
effects on psychological characteristics and other socially important outcomes years and …

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 …

In 2005 a large earthquake struck northern Pakistan. Exposure to the earthquake was
plausibly exogenous to household and individual characteristics, and households received …

In this study, we evaluate how an expansion of Medicaid coverage for pregnant women and
infants affected the adult outcomes of individuals who gained access to coverage in utero …

We show that psychological well-being in adulthood varies with circumstance in early life.
Combining a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative …

We estimate the effects of temperature on human capital production in India. We show that
high temperatures reduce math and reading test scores among school-age children …

Children who face significant disadvantage early in life are often found to be worse off years
or even decades later. Can conditional cash transfer programs mitigate the negative …

We study the impact of preschool targeted at children from low-income families over the life
cycle and across generations, and examine its interaction with an infant health intervention …

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 …

The birth order literature emphasizes the role of parental investments in explaining why
firstborns have higher human capital outcomes than their laterborn siblings. We use birth …