-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature … fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the …

and time invested in homeschooling of children, suggesting that improvement in mental health is an important step toward …In low-income settings, women are vulnerable to the psychological distress caused by the social and economic impact of …-the-phone counseling intervention aimed at mitigating the mental health impact of COVID-19 on a sample of 2,402 women across 357 villages …

We study the effects of in utero exposure to climate change induced high ocean salinity levels on children …'s anthropometric outcomes. Leveraging six geo-referenced waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys merged with gridded ….15 standard deviations, respectively. Analyses of parental investments and health-seeking behaviors demonstrate that compensating …

. -- fertility ; family planning ; health and development ; program evaluation ; Bangladesh …The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …

In this paper, I estimate the inter-generational health impact of maternal employment opportunities using evidence from … probability of neonatal survival for children who are born in areas that experience higher growth in employment opportunities post …

This paper investigates the effect of drinking arsenic contaminated water on mental health. Drinking water with an …' arsenicosis symptoms and their physical and mental health. We find that suffering from an arsenicosis symptom is strongly … negatively related to mental health, even more so than from other illnesses. Furthermore, individuals drinking from an untested …

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 … characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the health consequences of rising temperature and relative humidity and …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children …

the three components mean child income, demographic circumstances and the distribution of child income. Child poverty is … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The … of child income as well as in the demographic composition. -- child poverty ; economic growth ; Bangladesh ; China …

outcomes. Using the 1996 Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey (MHSS), we find that women who were pregnant during the famine … were less likely to have male children. Moreover, children who were in utero during the most severe period of the …

Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor …) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …