Many believe that increasing the quantity of children will lead to a decrease in their quality. This paper exploits … plausibly exogenous changes in family size caused by relaxations in China's One Child Policy to estimate the causal effect of … significantly increased school enrollment of first-born children by approximately 16 percentage-points. The effect is larger for …

in life. This paper evaluates the parental response to variation in non-cognitive skills among their children in rural … Gansu province, China, employing a household fixed effects specification; non-cognitive skills are defined as the inverse of …). The results suggest that on average, parents invest no more in terms of educational expenditure in children who have …

and 1,460 children younger than 1 year of age were assessed at baseline. The interventions were also complemented with … training, supervision and coaching of FAMI program facilitators. We assessed program effects on children's nutritional status … reduction of 5.8 percentage points in the fraction of children whose height-for-age is below -1 standard deviation. We do not …

household heads, care-givers of children, and their teachers and schools. We analysed results from 9,947 children, aged 7 …-17, tested for literacy and numeracy competency. Only 27% of children were able to add two single digits, and just 19% were able … to read and comprehend a simple word. Our unannounced school checks found 72% of enrolled children in grades 1 …

China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health …

middle-income countries--lack strong primary care. We analyze China's efforts to promote primary care management for insured …