worse outcomes irrespective of living conditions. Yet even with controls, the elderly who live with children do worse. This … is in sharp contrast to younger adults who live with children, likely their own, whose life evaluation is no different in … the presence of the child once background conditions are controlled for. Parents, like elders, have enhanced negative …

, and rates of immunization for children born between 1988 and 2005. We find deterioration in nearly all of these dimensions … seen the largest erosion in treatment for pregnant women and children. Using semi-parametric techniques, we can date the …

, and rates of immunization for children born between 1988 and 2005. We find deterioration in nearly all of these dimensions … seen the largest erosion in treatment for pregnant women and children. Using semi-parametric techniques, we can date the …

. Children's choices are consistent with the underweighting of low-probability events and the overweighting of high …

the poor have more children than the rich. Micro-data from 48 developing countries suggest that this phenomenon is very … the fertility transition based on changing preferences over the quality and quantity of children, and somewhat less so …

in average height across developing countries are not well explained by differences in wealth. In particular, children in … India are shorter, on average, than children in Africa who are poorer, on average, a paradox which is often called the Asian … disease and stunt children's growth. I apply three complementary empirical strategies to Demographic and Health Survey data to …

-year-olds (sixth and ninth graders) as well as for college students. Like adults, children accepted smaller o?ers when they did not … know how much was being divided. Older children required increasingly higher o?ers, except for college students who were …Recent research on ultimatum bargaining, the fact that children often confront and use ultimatums, and theories of …

of ultimatum games with children, teens and university students. We find that children and teens react systematically to … perceived intentions, like university students do. However, children and teens reject unequal offers much more often than … university students, indicating that outcomes are relatively more important than intentions for younger subjects. Hence, the …

Recent policy initiatives offer cash payments to children (and often their families) to induce better health and … educational choices. These policies implicitly assume that children are especially impatient (i.e., have high discount rates …); however, little is known about the nature of children's patience, how it varies across children, and whether children can even …