importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother's education and age, household wealth, and child birth order. However, the …, the results for Jharkhand state in India and Barisal province in Bangladesh indicate that controlling for those commonly … cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …

. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more working-age adults are likely to grow faster than cities with more children … ratios, that is, with more children and/or seniors per working-age adult, grow significantly slower. Such effects are … particularly pronounced for cities with high shares of children. This result appears to be driven mainly by the direct, negative …

the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon …"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between … months have lower anthropometric scores compared with children born during the fall and winter months. The authors propose …

female child mortality in India, or about 22,000 "missing girls" each year … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is …

This article discusses son preference in India, including both greater investment in sons and the fertility preference …

implying that in the past health inequality was transmitted across generations. I also show that" children born at the … neonatal death rates because obstetrical and" medical knowledge was poorer. In addition, by day ten children in the past were … at a" disadvantage relative to children today because best practice resulted in insufficient feeding. The" poor average …

children's educational outcomes. We focus on children in fathers' "second families" when the second families are nuclear … families - households consisting of a man, a woman, their joint children, and no other children. We analyze outcomes for almost … 75,000 Norwegian children, all of whom, until they were at least age 18, lived in nuclear families. Controlling for a …