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 …

extremely poor areas with pregnant mothers and/or children below the age of 2. The analysis finds significant and sizable …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper analyzes the incentives to labor supply faced by families, particularly mothers, with young children in the …-paying work for mothers with young children. Alternative remedies include a reform of the eligibility and withdrawal rules of the … steep marginal tax rates due to the benefit withdrawal rules. Single parents with two children, and second earners with one …

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 …