? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they … aggregate economic shocks on child schooling and health. It shows that the expected effects are ambiguous, because of a tension … countries, like the United States, child health and education outcomes are counter-cyclical: they improve during recessions. In …

data from Demographic and Health Surveys in rural Mali, where polygyny rates among married women are close to 50 per cent …

Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market …

children is prone to greater variability according to life experiences than that of socially adjusted children. We find that … socially maladjusted children and, overall, investment in higher education seems to be relevant. This suggests that … interventions during life development for socially maladjusted children could be important to reduce inequality in adult employment …