local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

from the Vital Statistics, it compares the health distribution (in terms of birth outcomes) of immigrant children born in …

socio-economic gradient in health, third-generation children of second- generation intermarried Hispanic women are more … by father's selectivity nor by individual unobservable characteristics associated with intermarriage. The children of …

children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of …

, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …

. This involves a method for embodying the ideal of children having priority on social resources into a particular set of …

that the presence of children has on the time devoted to elder care. We combine the approach of the Social Cognitive Theory …", i.e, the presence of children, while parents are engaged in elder care activities, increases by 11.63% the time devoted … per day when children are present during adult care activities. …

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation …