security and self-sufficiency is followed by a presentation of infrastructure organizations and their cooperation to implement …

electricity and fertility. We find no evidence that changes to direct and indirect costs of children play a role. Overall, the …

late childhood. We estimate that a one standard deviation reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality rates results in about …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …

large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the … most hard-hit cities completing 1.2 fewer years. Second, these children were about half inches (one centimeter) shorter and …

from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …

and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …) Vocabulary, (3) Mathematics, (4) Reading and (5) Comprehension. We find that while left-handed children have a significantly … poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely … infant mortality for about 150000 children born in 1970-1997, merged by birth-cohort with a state panel containing … mortality risks of children born at different times to the same mother, conditional upon a number of state-time varying …