widespread in North Africa, Central and West Asia, and most parts of South Asia, is linked to child cognitive ability and … on child outcomes, prior work likely underestimates the negative impacts of consanguinity on child outcomes. This paper … finds that children born into consanguineous marriages have lower test scores, lower height-for-age, and a higher likelihood …

stimulation to boost child development, particularly for children ages 0-3 years. The paper reviews the rationale for linking both …This paper examines the potential for bringing together cash transfer and parenting programs focused on child … program has improved some parental practices and child development outcomes, with results in cognition and language. However …

guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading. Three years after the end … of the intervention, the receptive vocabulary and the socio-emotional development of children of families participating … in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0.43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of …

Household expenditures for children-related goods may change when one of the parent migrates and do so differently … migration is accounted for using a set of instrumental variables derived from the model. Results show that when children are … of budget devoted to children remains unaffected because mothers compensate by giving up their own private consumption …

When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial … social security on education investments in children. In a difference-in-differences framework, a significant increase in the …

that either directly support the education of children with disabled parents and/or have policies that support disabled …This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in … the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey. Results from instrumental-variables regressions indicate that children …

receive cognitive stimulation and emotional support from parents, play a profound role in influencing early childhood … activities and child outcomes is particularly strong for non-stunted children, and parental activities can only explain about 8 …Substantial work has demonstrated that early nutrition and home environments, including the degree to which children …

Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper …

Longitudinal patterns of child development and socioeconomic status are described for a cohort of children in … lagged outcomes, maternal endowments, measures of child health, and home stimulation. Wealth gradients are significant at …