To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in …) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one of their children. First, we find strong empirical support for … children’s meals than men. Third, the spouses’ respective bargaining positions derived from consumption patterns strongly …

development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …, which targeted families with 0-5-year-old children only, benefited significantly from the program, whereas 0-5 year-olds in …

for the period 2000-2010 between Portugal and European Union’s Member States (EU-27). The present study uses the …

, Ireland and Portugal. The goal is not the calculation of a baseline scenario which best corresponds to our views, but to set … debt ratio due to the stock-flow adjustment in 2014-15 for Portugal. Our findings suggests that the public debt ratio is …