, affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. In our empirical specification we use household … income reduction associated with it, whereas for girls, changes in the household decision-maker appear to play an important …

, strongly suggests that the channel through which departure affects children is through reducing income. It also highlights the …This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school … enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school …

increases in household food consumption, particularly of protein-rich foods by children. The increased household consumption is …

the main source of random variation in the propensity to have more children, and estimates causal effects using …

We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children … breastfeeding on children's cognitive development but no effects on health or non-cognitive development during the period of …