seen as principal contributors to child human capital. First, household expenditure behavior under a CCT program is …

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 …

Over the past decades child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates. While the country experienced several … aid in reducing child malnutrition. Using nationally representative household surveys from 1995-96 and controlling for … program placement, Yamano, Alderman, and Christiaensen find that children between 6 and 24 months experienced about 0.9 cm …

The effects of public investments aimed at directly improving children's health are theoretically ambiguous, since the … influencing the incidence of child health gains from access to piped water in rural India. Using propensity score matching methods …, they find that the prevalence and duration of diarrhea among children under five are significantly less on average for …

declines continuously with rising living standards; 3) the tendency of poorer children to have higher rates of stunting, and …. Brazil, for example, has a far lower (less than 20 percent) stunting rate overall, than Bangladesh (more than 50 percent … position to fourth, higher than Brazil and Russia (two countries with high inequality) …

Although substantial progress has been made in combating malnutrition at the global level, chronic maternal and child … in Nepal, evaluates a program that provided information on best practices in providing child care and cash to families in … extremely poor areas with pregnant mothers and/or children below the age of 2. The analysis finds significant and sizable …

This paper analyzes the effects of a multilateral debt relief program on child health. The International Monetary Fund … on child health. The retrospective fertility structure of the data allows for analysis using the within-mother variation …. There are no child health effects from graduating from the program and receiving full debt relief …

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 …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the … children under age 18 years, 19.5 percent are estimated to live on less than $1.90 per day, as opposed to 9.2 percent of adults … ages 18 and above. Poverty rates are high for children ages 0 to 4 years, slightly higher among ages 5 to 9 years, and …

health has been quite limited; and (ii) provides evidence of significant synergies among adequate food, child care, and …