animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was … exposed. We do not find robust effects on the probability of obtaining an upper secondary education. …

's access to water, sanitation, housing, healthcare, nutrition, education and information. We identify causal impacts using a … women's constraints on child outcomes using nationally representative household Demographic and Health Survey data from … India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16. Outcomes are measured as multidimensional …

associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show … a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left …-behind children relative to children who migrate with their parents. Additional results from a standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … characteristics, and girl children exhibit poorer nutritional status than boys. Results from a quantile decomposition procedure …

shows that households tend to disproportionately reduce investments (prenatal and postnatal) in their female children. This … results on postnatal channels show substantial impacts on the long-term health outcomes of surviving girls, as rainfall no …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … education. Reduced children's health and education will have lasting private and social costs, which could easily exceed the … the earthquake's aftermath. This aid mitigated but could not fully prevent the adverse effects on children's health and …

This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health … in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers … to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments based on the weight‐for‐age nutritional status of children in their …

certain health investments, including children's diets. Our results support the notion that traditional gender roles can …This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel … paternal unemployment reduces child health, while maternal unemployment has beneficial child health impacts. Analysis of …