The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their … parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …

animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was … exposed. We do not find robust effects on the probability of obtaining an upper secondary education. …

health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor … health are about 7 percentage points less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15-24. These results are robust to … and depression symptoms. Moreover, we find that mothers’ health shocks have more negative consequences on younger children …

immigration. This paper examines the education outcomes of a cohort of immigrants who arrived in Canada as children. The 2006 … likely that children who migrate face different challenges in attaining high school credentials depending upon their age at … Census is used and it is found that there is in fact a distinct change in the chances that children will hold a high …

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany’s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …

This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three … polarisation. Based on estimated regression models, we conclude that increased returns to parental education have forcefully … contributed to larger economic polarisation among children in Swedish metropolitan regions. …