Bangladesh using recent nationally representative data on secondary school children. We unambiguously find a negative and …Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater … has implications for children's cognitive and psychological development. This study examines the effect of arsenic …

and subsequent illnesses such as various cancers. We collected household survey data from Bangladesh, a country with wide …

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 unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their … parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …

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 …

animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and …

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 … care, and also collect data from a control group receiving only their standard salary. Mothers of children in all three …

certain health investments, including children's diets. Our results support the notion that traditional gender roles can …