short run in spite of reduced desire for children and increased contraceptive use. We explain this paradox in two ways …

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 …