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 …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … more effective because we do not find any detrimental long-term effects for exposed children from higher socioeconomic … backgrounds. In contrast, exposed children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have significantly worse labor market outcomes as …

Fertility has begun to fall in Sub-Saharan Africa but it remains high on average and particularly for a few countries …. This paper examines African fertility using a panel data set of 47 Sub-Saharan countries between 1962 and 2003. Fixed and … poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …

,000 children of 7,300 Indian mothers, for whom a complete retrospective record of fertility and child mortality is available … mortality of successive children in a family. We also predict the impact of mortality on total fertility. Model simulations … suggest that, for every neonatal death, an additional 0.37 children are born, of whom 0.3 survive. …

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence … supporting such a causal relationship − particularly on child health − is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses …

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 …