Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such …

present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother´s working status when the … mother decides how to allocate her time and that of her children. A multilevel random effects model is applied to study the … mother´s participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health …

, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …

of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time … by using proxy measures collected in the third round of the National Family Health Survey of India, on information … states in India - Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. Our results indicate that female autonomy is not associated with …

groups - children of uneducated poor women living in rural India. … quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …

that shorter children experienced greater mortality and that this selection offset stunting. We disentangle stunting and … selection effects of the Chinese famine, using the height of the children of the famine cohort. We find significant stunting of …