This paper estimates the causal impact of landmines on child health and household expenditures in Angola by exploiting … war ; landmines ; instrumental variables ; household expenditures ; height-for-age ; weight-for-age ; Angola …

of children, as the quality-quantity trade-off would suggest. We use microdata from a unique survey from 1930s Britain to … analyze the relationship between the standardized heights of children and the number of children in the family. Our results … suggest that heights are influenced positively by family income per capita and negatively by the number of children or the …

The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average …. Examining town-level panel data on the heights of school children I find no evidence for the selection effect but some support … century. -- Heights of children ; infant mortality ; health in Britain …