We propose an innovative child-specific measure of son preference. It allows to explicitly address birth order and sex … born children and in families with fewer sons. We then study the son preference-specific girl-penalty in early cognitive … higher birth orders, for girls with sisters and for girls of mothers with a high number of desired sons. …

status and her time spent with children. Exogenous status is captured by a composite index constructed with parental …

The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …

cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that nutrition information alone, even when parents are informed about the … children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous cutoff of … anemia status of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than information might constrain …