impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not …

-experimental variation created by the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in May 24th 1991. Children in utero prior to immigration faced … dramatic differences in medical care technologies, prenatal conditions, and prenatal care at the move from Ethiopia to Israel … that children exposed in an earlier stage of the pregnancy to better environmental conditions in utero have two decades …

children exposed in utero versus after birth. The identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in the conflict … war-exposed children subsequently have lower height-for-age Z-scores, and impacts using GPS information are 87-188% larger … in magnitude, and children in the war instigating and losing country (Eritrea) suffer more than the winning nation …

We estimate the effects of having more mature peers using data from an experiment where children of the same age were …

association remains unclear. In this paper we consider a new explanation: that children born at different times in the year are … women giving birth throughout the year in the United States. Children born in the winter are disproportionally born to women …

Little is known about the relationship between family income and children's non-cognitive (or socio-emotional) skill … evolution of children's non-cognitive skills using a recent US panel dataset that tracks children between grades K-5. Findings … be explained by children's health status differences …

' encompasses a wide range of behaviors that adversely affect children. It includes neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other … that the economic circumstances of parents matter: increases in the fractions of children with absent fathers and working …

declined by more than half. This paper explores whether improvements in the economic well-being of children have accompanied … Population Surveys over the years 1988 through 2001. Specifically, we link data for families with children who are interviewed in … becomes insignificant in the presence of business cycle controls. We also determine that children who were poor at an initial …

attainment of taller individuals. We then turn to the NLSY79 Children and Young Adult Survey to better understand what specific …