health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital … the expected future human capital of children born today, following the methodology of the World Bank Human Capital Index …

? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they … aggregate economic shocks on child schooling and health. It shows that the expected effects are ambiguous, because of a tension … countries, like the United States, child health and education outcomes are counter-cyclical: they improve during recessions. In …

. Households in 162 public health centers were randomly assigned to three groups: a control group, a second group that was offered … guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading. Three years after the end … of the intervention, the receptive vocabulary and the socio-emotional development of children of families participating …

household; perceived social norms; and an outcome of household bargaining: investments in her children. The analysis instruments …

This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status …. Based on Demographic and Health Survey data from Tanzania with the migration history of mothers and fathers, the analysis … treatment. The findings show that children who were born to parents who were living closer to refugee camps during their early …