parental welfare participation for children from marginal welfare participants, we know very little about intergenerational … spillovers of welfare participation onto the children of average welfare participants. By combining rich administrative data from … welfare participation on children’s welfare participation in the general population, as well as the average causal effect for …

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

housing allowances in 1997 which affected participation tax rates for households with/without children differently. Using a …

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 …

, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi …-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru to investigate its effects on nutrition related … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …

, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …

custodial parents exercise their children's voting rights until they come of age) and the vast literature on formal models with …