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

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 …

This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 …-2 years of age, with a view to studying two aspects of the neglect of children: their likelihood of being immunised against … disease and their likelihood of receiving a nutritious diet. The starting hypothesis, consistent with an universal interest in …

This paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh. We use self-reported injury or … illness due to work as a general measure of health status. Using the Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey data for 2002 … subjective health across age groups, we find that health disadvantages for different age groups are not essentially parallel. …

health outcomes for household members. This paper investigates whether child nutrition inequalities are attributable to …

Recently there has been much public discussion about children spending long afternoons alone at home. It has been … claimed that spending a lot of time alone makes children vulnerable to many kinds of risk behaviour, such as smoking, use of … alcohol and drugs, depression and poor school performance. Concerns have also been voiced about children’s unsupervised …

have ignored the potential importance of household work performed by children at home. Given that children from certain age … that in a family, children replace their old parents in household chores that would allow parents work longer hours to … income of working children and other components of household income affect the allocation of children's time between working …

describes the income diversification patterns of Peruvian households with young children (aged between 6 and 18 months … communities who have no young children. The authors explore links between income diversification strategies, household assets, the …

In sub-Saharan Africa, 60 % of child deaths are preventable by investments in child health as simple as immunizations … children. Estimating within households, I instrument cohort characteristics with those of the nonsibling (exogenous) portion. I … find that children with larger (or more predominantly male) cohorts of vaccine-eligible age are significantly more likely …

are that a greater bargaining power of parents, with respect to their adult children, and a greater involvement of adult … children in the production of the family good, are major contributory factors in increasing the number of children. …