In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it … provides the first estimates the long-term impact of the famine twenty years later, on the height of young adults aged 19 … intensity is measured at the household level, while impacts are assessed using a difference-in-differences comparison across …

continuities in household composition. In particular, households in the pre-industrial era were no more likely than present … resulted in a household composition which resembles that produced by early widowhood in the seventeenth century. Nor has the … to illustrate household types. The paper concludes by suggesting that a standard set of tables should be agreed upon and …

and purchased child care (e.g. childminders, nannies) for the care and rearing of children. The theoretical model implies …

household survey for 1984 in combination with data on public day care fees and spaces per child by community. We argue that the … the household. The joint out-of-home child care and labor supply decision is analyzed by logit-choice models. We find that …

addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China's Great Famine on adult health and labor market … adult health, educational attainment and labor supply. The results show that exposure to famine had significant adverse … effects on adult health and work capacity. The magnitude of the effect is negatively correlated with age at the onset of the …

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …