Italian NGO, in a poor neighborhood of Quito, Ecuador, targets parents of children from birth to age 5. It provides family …Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … same time: empowering mothers through tools that also advance their children's development. A program operated by AVSI, an …

There is continuing controversy about the extent to which publicly insured children are treated differently than … privately insured children, and whether differences in treatment matter. We show that on average, hospitals are less likely to … admit publicly insured children than privately insured children who present at the ER and the gap grows during high flu …

-experimental variation created by the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in May 24th 1991. Children in utero prior to immigration faced … that children exposed in an earlier stage of the pregnancy to better environmental conditions in utero have two decades …

largest for first born children. We also find that women on WIC are more likely to be diagnosed with chronic conditions, and …

was associated with improvements in emotional functioning or academic outcomes among children with ADHD. We find little …

from drinking water while in utero. We find small effects of drinking water contamination on all children, but large and …