) intervention that targeted children aged 4 living in socially mixed neighborhoods of the city of Paris. We selected a large, random … sample of families and provided parents with free books, information on the benefits of SBR and tips for effective reading … practices. We measured SBR frequency and children's vocabulary before and after this intervention, among treated and control …

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health. …

This paper investigates time inconsistencies in food consumption based on a field experiment at a college canteen where …

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … positive effect of the migration of daughters on parents' health and life satisfaction, but no such beneficial effects when … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel …

educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less …

, including early health, skills, and the parents' and child's own attitudes towards education, as well as outcomes related to …Based on the sample of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we investigate the … formation of health capital and the role played by genetic endowments, parental SES, and education. To measure genetic …

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 …

investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition … are robust to various specifications. -- children's health ; job loss ; Grossman's model ; China … Survey covering the period from 1991 to 2006. We find that paternal job loss has a significant negative effect on children …

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on …

-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 …