Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK … children's development up to the age of seven. Estimating production functions for cognitive, social, and socio …

effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …

Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … children equally between them, while the predominant pattern in developing countries is for the father to specialize in market … work leaving the care of the children to the mother. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between …

The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …

current (same fiscal year) drought events have positive impacts on dairy farms’ revenue and profit; this effect is most likely … attributable to drought-induced increases in the price of milk solids (New Zealand is the market maker in this global market). In … general, dairy farmers ‘benefit’ more from drought events when compared to sheep/beef farms, whereas the latter sector has …

drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands …

, unlike recurring droughts, a first-time exposure to a three-month severe drought reduces individuals’ body mass index by 2 …

The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I … construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate … that those more affected by the drought more often participated in peasant revolts against the feudal system. Then, I …