Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead …, extensive research links elevated blood lead levels in children to academic and behavioral outcomes, but more limited attention …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … willing to pay money to override their children's choices. Parental interference predicts more intensive parenting styles and …

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 …

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash …