importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother's education and age, household wealth, and child birth order. However, the …, the results for Jharkhand state in India and Barisal province in Bangladesh indicate that controlling for those commonly … cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …

. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more working-age adults are likely to grow faster than cities with more children … ratios, that is, with more children and/or seniors per working-age adult, grow significantly slower. Such effects are … particularly pronounced for cities with high shares of children. This result appears to be driven mainly by the direct, negative …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …

the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings, we find that …

challenges and offers policy recommendations to ensure inclusivity in education for children with disabilities …This study seeks to examine gender gaps and disability issues in education in Indonesia, and to suggest policy actions … outcomes and educational achievement for all children. Secondary data analysis shows that Indonesia has demonstrated great …

in childhood on primary school enrollment status, using pseudo-panel data for children ages six to nine years in …-a difference of 8 to 10 percentage points-for children ages six to seven. It is also strong in rural areas. The results are …

Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …

the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon …"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between … months have lower anthropometric scores compared with children born during the fall and winter months. The authors propose …