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 …

higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … to sons seem to have caused families to change the sex-composition of and health investments in their children. …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …

steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses … in India of boys performing better. …

, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … decisions are affected by different dimensions of mortality and technological progress which change endogenously during the … formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern …

-level information on the intensity of the conflict, we examine the impact of the civil war on infant and child mortality. War exposure … mortality for the exposed and the unexposed birth cohorts. We find large positive effects of exposure to the conflict on infant … and child mortality. Moreover, restricting our sample to the survivors, we find that child mortality is significantly …

increases the effective use of contraception. Reduced child mortality seems to be another important pathway linking access to … electricity and fertility. We find no evidence that changes to direct and indirect costs of children play a role. Overall, the …

the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in … endogenous variables across countries. The results suggest that differences in extrinsic mortality might explain a substantial …