We present a field experiment to study the effects of non-monetary incentives on healthy food choices of 282 children … be feasible. We introduce a system where food items are graded based on their nutritional value, involving parents or … classmates as change agents by providing them with information regarding the food choices of their children or friends. We find …

intervention significantly improved maternal mental health, especially among mothers of boys. It resulted in imprecisely estimated … analysis of mechanisms reveals that the intervention modified the production function of children's skills, by lowering the … productivity of maternal mental health in the first 12 months of life. It moved outcomes for depressed women closer to outcomes for …

the mother's health and health-related behaviours and exposures are systematically positively associated with the …

impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

for 17 million births in 72 countries, we demonstrate that indicators of mother's health and health-related behaviours are … and poorer countries, evident even among women who do not use IVF, and hold for numerous different measures of health. We …

We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using … childhood health and cognitive skills at ages 7 and 10, educational and occupational choice at age 16-20, employment, earnings … and occupation at age 36-40, and pension income at age 71. Leveraging quasi-random variation in eligibility by birth date …

dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …

-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature … fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the …