diseases for children in their first years of life. Better maternal education and family economic status significantly increase … than fish for child health. In addition, mothers' individual preferences for different animal-source foods, and the …

cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the … importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother?s education and age, household wealth, and child birth order. However, the …

distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or unconditional and were given to either mothers or fathers …. Conditionality was linked to older children enrolling in school and attending regularly and younger children receiving preventive … health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household …

inequalities by household wealth status, mothers? education, and place of residence. It is based on four Demographic and Health …

year old for those children whose mothers have no formal education. No significant association is found at 5 years of age … physical and human capital. This paper contributes to this literature, studying the association between mothers' access to … social capital via participation in community organizations and their children's nutritional status at 1 and 5 years. Using …

with a regression discontinuity estimator based on children's birth months, the paper finds a sizable effect of childcare …

for male children, the same cultural norm widely known to cause excess mortality before birth or at young ages. Using … care and prenatal sex diagnostic technologies. To ensure the desired sex composition of children, these women resort to a …

in childhood on primary school enrollment status, using pseudo-panel data for children ages six to nine years in … difference of 8 to 10 percentage points -- for children ages six to seven. It is also strong in rural areas. The results are …

her child's health. Mothers exposed to conflict during their childhood have more children and live in less wealthy … households, likely reducing their ability to invest during their children?s critical period of physical development. The finding … points to a potential trade-off between the quantity and quality of children. The paper uses information on monthly conflict …