children's risk of malaria infection. For identification, we rely on exogenous variation in educational attainment generated by … prophylaxis during pregnancy by between 3.7 and 14.5 percentage points, and their children's probability of sleeping under an … insecticide-treated bed net (ITN) by between 1.8 and 3.0 percentage points. Results for both women's use of ITN and children …

rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. The first-order dominance methodology was used to examine five dimensions of … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … income poverty are imperative for different locations in Ghana. …

This paper considers the case for universal child allowances in Ghana. It follows findings from an earlier study of 14 … Ghanaian households contain children, and those households contain 82 per cent of the total population, spreading the impact of … children. …

, with children and pregnant women experiencing most of these improvements. An examination of the underlying mechanisms …

first and second leading causes of death and morbidity among young children in developing countries. The fact that a large … tested in a developing country context, and which focus on children as the primary target population. Overall, we find that …

We analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0-17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3 per cent can be … provinces. We compare Mozambican children's wellbeing with that of children in other regional countries. Despite impressive … and poverty reduction experienced by the population as a whole translate into better living conditions for children. …