This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 … - 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children …

(endogamy, age and education difference between spouses). Weather shocks provide an exogenous source of variation of household … income through agricultural production. Data on weather shocks are merged with individual and household level data from the …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … lower quality. Using Norwegian register data, we compare outcomes of children of sisters who have first births at different … for children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that …

We study the effects of violence towards children on early childhood development. We contribute to the literature … behavioral problems of both boys and girls, with stronger effects among boys; that the negative effects diminish as children get … older; and that they are more harmful among children with less educated mothers. …

individual children and compare treatments and controls. The program substantially improves child language and cognitive, fine …

assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …