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

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 …, children of working mothers have a lower probability of attending school. This, together with the result that only illiterate … mother decides how to allocate her time and that of her children. A multilevel random effects model is applied to study the …

, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less … findings that early childhood developmental program attendance at ages 0-6 raises the probability of school enrollment among …

of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time … parental and household characteristics which also conditionally affect school entry age. The model identification is achieved … by using proxy measures collected in the third round of the National Family Health Survey of India, on information …

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 …

not in school as potential mediators. We find that: (1) Welfare reform had no favorable effects on any of the youth … clubs/teams/activities, skipping school, getting into fights, damaging property, stealing, hurting others, smoking, using … skipping school, damaging property, and getting into fights among boys. (4) Welfare reform led to increases in smoking and drug …