We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children’s stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and … the earthquake’s aftermath. This aid mitigated but could not fully prevent the adverse effects on children’s health and …

that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-in-decompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs … relative to men associated with changing cumulative net nutrition. The primary source of female-male within-group variation was …

the physical environment. This study evaluates 19th century macro-level nutrition and diseases associated with US BMI … effect on net-nutrition than cholera. After controlling for nutrition and disease, black BMIs and weights were greater than …

How costly are droughts to individuals’ nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite …

We study the relationship between a key early intervention policy designed to support families with children up to the … age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care. The gradual build-up of over 3,600 Sure Start … Children's Centres (SSCC), operated by Local Authorities across England, created large spatial and cohort variation in the …

and services. To reduce child marriage, which has long-run negative effects on the development of children, policymakers …

, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

framed field experiment, we let 142 three to six-year old preschool children allocate a fixed endowment between an in …

social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings’ sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental … sizeable for families with children …