Kiribati is among the first few countries in the world to have undertaken a national census of children's early health … and development. This report presents data collected for 7,194 children aged 3 to 5 years across 21 of the country …'s islands. Data were collected on children's health and development, their learning environments at home, and their early …

her child's health. Mothers exposed to conflict during their childhood have more children and live in less wealthy … households, likely reducing their ability to invest during their children's critical period of physical development. The finding … points to a potential trade-off between the quantity and quality of children. The paper uses information on monthly conflict …

the socioeconomic status of survey respondents at age 15, the educational attainment of their parents, their households …

-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the … children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … effects on children. The effects are particularly salient at the bottom of the distributions of outcomes. Drawing on insights …

on students' learning outcomes. Receiving the grant alone had no impact on either test scores or student participation …

mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …

and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …

health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … taller and have 5.3 more years of schooling than their providers (usually their parents), while female offspring are 4 … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …

This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status … treatment. The findings show that children who were born to parents who were living closer to refugee camps during their early …