This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main … religions - Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The results indicate that Christian infants have higher height-for-age z-scores as … relatively large Christian presence. We instrument for Christian identity today using data on the location of Protestant and …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have …

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique … questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a … loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is associated with loss of overall happiness; but (c) presence of children …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …, leading to a de-stigmatization of sex. As contraception has become more effective there is less need for parents, churches and …

the short-run effects of parents' illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis is based on household panel data from … health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor …Evidence on the role of parental health on child schooling is surprisingly thin. We explore this issue by estimating …

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the … German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …

for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market … of earmarked paternity leave. The literature on parental leave has proliferated over the last couple of decades. The … leave is found to be beneficial for both maternal and child health and for mothersââ'¬â"¢ labor market outcomes. Second …

-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature … fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the …

We present a field experiment to study the effects of non-monetary incentives on healthy food choices of 282 children … be feasible. We introduce a system where food items are graded based on their nutritional value, involving parents or … classmates as change agents by providing them with information regarding the food choices of their children or friends. We find …

dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …