explained by improvements in early parental investment. This study demonstrates that boosting children's early cognitive skills …

on children's education by exploiting the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006. Using the variation in the … sanctions decreased children's total years of schooling by 0.1 years and the probability of attending college by 4.8 percentage … children who were exposed longer to the sanctions. The results imply that sanctions have a larger effect on the income of …

visiting, group parenting, and baby massage, to disadvantaged Irish families raises children's cognitive and socio … by gender and stronger gains for firstborns. The results also suggest that socioeconomic gaps in children's skills are …

pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching … months old increase the likelihood of being overweight at 3 years old, but only for children of mothers with higher levels of … education. Informal childcare at 9 months also has harmful effects on child weight, but again only for children of more educated …

This paper examines mobility and changes in Body Mass Index (BMI) for a sample of Irish children across three waves of … mobility appears to be relatively limited although it is greater than for the mothers of the children over the same time period …

This paper examines the change in body mass index for a cohort of Irish children as they aged from 9 to 13 and …