Population-level administrative data—data on individuals' interactions with administrative
systems (eg, health, criminal justice, and education)—have substantially advanced our …

We study the long-term impact of a policy-driven change in childhood nutrition. For this
purpose, we evaluate a program that rolled out nutritious school lunches free of charge to all …

This paper examines the impact of exposure to public health insurance in early life on
outcomes in adolescence in rural China. Exploiting the variation in the county-by-county …

Early childhood development is becoming the focus of policy worldwide. However, the
evidence on the effectiveness of scalable models is scant, particularly when it comes to …

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 …

This paper investigates the potential of an infant intervention to improve life expectancy,
contributing to emerging interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We track …

Evaluating policy changes that occur everywhere at the same time is difficult because of the
lack of a clear counterfactual. Hoping to address this problem, researchers often proxy for …

Importance Individuals with low income may have heightened rates of obesity and
hypertension. Objective To determine whether prenatal and infancy home visitation by …

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 …

This paper studies the long-term and life cycle consequences of increasing access to mother
and child health care centers in the first year of life. Access to these centers increased …