health and development of their children. This program is of particular interest because, unlike other transfer programs that … actions, such as taking children to health clinics or sending them to school. This feature of the program makes it possible to … assess whether conditionality is necessary for programs to have beneficial effects on children. The authors use random …

-income countries. Rigorous studies on the effectiveness of ECD-related programs for improving children's development in various … longitudinal data collected over three years on a cohort of 6,693 children age 0-4 years at baseline in two quot … age of children and duration of exposure to the program. There has been a significant improvement in the cognitive, social …

This paper summarizes the socioeconomic conditions of children around the world. It explores solutions to the main …

Economic shocks at birth have lasting effects on children's health several years after the shock. The authors calculate … height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey … exogenous shocks that children experience at birth on their height several years later. They find that boys and girls born after …

Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top … of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic … outcomes including the timing of marriage. The authors examine marriage outcomes for a sample of children interviewed in …

very young children are particularly vulnerable to shocks that lead to growth faltering, with substantial long-term health …

There is considerable evidence that young children in many developing countries suffer from profound deficits in … development (ECD) outcomes are important markers of the welfare of children. In addition, the deleterious effects of poor outcomes …

could help explain why the majority of migrants choose to leave their children behind. This paper proposes a theoretical … their children to the city. The analysis instruments the endogenous school fees with unexpected shocks to the city's public … workers from bringing their children, especially their daughters; reduce the number of children they bring; and increase …