covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that … several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …

-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 …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

their children's human capital. In this paper, we investigate whether laws can affect attitudes and behaviour towards child … intervention that aimed to accelerate knowledge transmission about a new child marriage law in Bangladesh that introduced harsher …

Economic preferences are important for lifetime outcomes such as educational achievements, health status, or labor … families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh we find a large degree of intergenerational persistence of economic …) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …

change the gender gaps in the intergenerational transmission. Our results are robust to different model specifications and …

investigate how numerous variables relate to preferences for egalitarian gender norms in rural Bangladesh. … data from rural Bangladesh. Alongside direct survey questions, we conduct list experiments to elicit true preferences for …

South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit … participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …

representative household survey for two cohorts of married women, I examine female CUA incidence and correlates in Bangladesh …. Health knowledge, especially knowledge that the use of condoms can help avoid contracting HIV/AIDS, is found to be part of …

This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural … records of all refugee arrivals and birth events between 2010 and 2017 show that children born to mothers who were exogenously …