This paper investigates the long-term effect of child poverty on labor market outcomes using a 14-year span of data …

countries. The number of infant deaths is still quite high, nutrition of children and women continues to be problematic, and …

This paper explores the impact of international migration on school enrollment of children staying behind in Tajikistan …. Counterfactual situations are constructed for children belonging to households with and without migrants, remittance receiving and … children who belong to households with migrants. The effect of parental migration is much larger than that of migration of …

Mean obesity level of the 2 - 8-year-old children in the region was 14.4%, 14.1% were overweight, 2.7% were underweight …-diabetes. Sixty-one percent of the children were Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and 20% were of more than one race. Food …

instrumental variable strategy are employed to control for the potential endogeneity of parental investments in children. The …

We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …

Informal eldercare is often supplied by family members, more so in Asia than in the West. Children and their parents as … children of the needy elderly can possibly give to their spouses. A second implication discussed here is that the provision of …

This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset … from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn … characteristics, migration duration, origin location, and family structure. Households migrating with school-age children have a …

-2014, this paper examines the impact of RASKIN on children's health status. Using the difference-in-difference estimator, we find … that children from the households that are beneficiaries of the RASKIN program show improved health status as measured by … children aged between 0 and 5 years old in 1993 and 1997 respectively until their adolescence/adulthood. We find evidence of …

This study examines the heterogeneous effect of migration on left-behind children's education and labor in Viet Nam …