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 …

explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms … Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). Our results show that especially fixed costs play an important role in …

, or divorce on children's school enrollment, for children aged from 7 to 22. We find children from two-parent families …-family types, the negative effect on children of parental divorce is higher than that of parental death, while the effect of … parental migration is the lowest. Comparing the effect of single-father and single-mother households, we find that children …

absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in the … number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more than … they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can be …

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 …

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 …

health and well-being later in life. It starts by highlighting the various contributions focusing on associations, then moves …

. Based on it, we designed the agriculture-household model, which predicts that health outcomes of child is dependent on …

a public health crisis. Using the Flint Water Crisis as a natural experiment, we estimate the effect of in utero … exposure to polluted water on health at birth. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data, we use a … effect on the length of gestation or rate of prematurity. However, these effects are larger among children born to black …