care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …

-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold … bargaining power within the household, leading to improved parental investments for children. These study findings are also …

, motor skills, physical activity, and health. It is based on a very informative data set, the German Motorik-Modul, and …-curricular physical activities. Generally, we find no statistically significant effects on health parameters. …

Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders … sports club membership, physical activity, overweightness, or motor skills. …

Prior empirical research on the theoretically proposed interaction between the quantity and the quality of children …, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … more effective because we do not find any detrimental long-term effects for exposed children from higher socioeconomic … backgrounds. In contrast, exposed children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have significantly worse labor market outcomes as …

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 …

cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status - shorter individuals show a stronger …

children who have a sibling in poor health persistently lag behind other children in their cognitive development - but only for …We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the … Australian Children, we employ a Regression Discontinuity Design based on birthday eligibility cut-offs. We find that Australian …

We test whether adverse childhood experiences - exposure to parental maltreatment and its indirect effect on health … estimated associations are significantly reduced in magnitude when controlling for physical or mental health, suggesting that … adolescent health could be one important pathway via which maltreatment affects adulthood personality. Maltreatment experiences …