maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied …

-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold … bargaining power within the household, leading to improved parental investments for children. These study findings are also …

larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses …

. The negative effect at low levels of schooling may be due to lower average health among marginal surviving children or a … greater propensity to complete secondary school on the other hand may be due to improved health among children who are farther … mortality, it had mixed effects on children's educational outcomes due to changes in the composition of children in the …

children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in … parities. An examination of the various mechanisms linking between prenatal sex selection and children outcomes suggests that … selection ; ultrasound ; sex ratio at birth ; gender discrimination ; child health …

scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today. …This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main …

quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … various measures of child health. The results indicate that children exposed to higher concentrations of agrichemicals during …This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water …

India is home to some 120 million children under the age of 5, 36 percent of whom are chronically malnourished. The … larger than the India-Africa gap, but that children from the socio-economically dominant group, the upper caste Hindus, are …

parents are informed about the health risk of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than … health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when …Lack of information about health risks may limit the adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper …