This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main … religions – Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The results indicate that Christian infants have higher height-for-age z-scores as … relatively large Christian presence. We instrument for Christian identity today using data on the location of Protestant and …

dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the … German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …

-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 …

We present a field experiment to study the effects of non-monetary incentives on healthy food choices of 282 children … be feasible. We introduce a system where food items are graded based on their nutritional value, involving parents or … classmates as change agents by providing them with information regarding the food choices of their children or friends. We find …

sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

The disproportionate impact of children on women's earnings constitutes the primary factor contributing to persistent … gender inequality in many countries. This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public … provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. Our analyses notably incorporate the role …

sample of more than 500 parents with pre-school aged children. Our findings show that our tool is reliable and delivers high …-quality data. By exploiting contextual information on the child's involvement and feelings during each activity performed with the … parent, we construct new measures of parental investments that capture the quality of daily parent-child interactions. We …

to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about … the responses of parents and their children. Exploring heterogeneity in the strength of transmission, we find that gender … of the child does not matter, but that children with fewer siblings, and firstborn children, are more strongly influenced …

-age children, the gender of the child becomes as important to the analysis as the gender of the parent. With regard to household … and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in … their parents' off-farm work decisions for three aggregated ethnic groups (majority Han, Muslim minorities, and non- Muslim …