food imports from the U.S. with anthropometric and food expenditure data. Our findings suggest that exposure to food … 2012. Pro-obesity effects are driven by areas more exposed to unhealthy food imports. We also find evidence in favour of a …

Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost … on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in … results imply a net reduction in healthy food store choice due to time lost …

children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in … parities. An examination of the various mechanisms linking between prenatal sex selection and children outcomes suggests that …

Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to … exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing and the exposure of different children's birth … sites to more accurately measure a child's war exposure. War-exposed children in both countries have lower height-for-age Z …

eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children … impact on low-status children is supported by the robustness checks. The observed patterns are most probably explained by the … better performance of kindergartens, as opposed to schools, in developing the skills of low-status children …

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine … children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is … largely causal. Relative to children who did not lose a parent, the education of the deceased parent is less important in …