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 …

all children born before (control group) and after the reform (treatment group) in cohorts of up to 27,000 newborns … sick children, which is our measure for household work. …

Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height … for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey … shocks that children experience at birth on their height several years later. We find that girls born after a shock in a …

To examine the impact of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide on children’s schooling, the authors combine two cross … group’s baseline schooling and exploits variation across provinces in the intensity of killings and which children’s cohorts … exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to …