health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household … transfer delivery mechanisms on education, health, and household welfare outcomes. The two-year pilot program randomly … distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or unconditional and were given to either mothers or fathers …

finds that children born into consanguineous marriages have lower test scores, lower height-for-age, and a higher likelihood … of being severely stunted. After controlling for current household wealth and parent education, the effects of endogenous … maternal grandparent mortality as instruments for consanguineous marriage of parents …

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

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 …

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does … unintended consequences and may fail to make children better off. Moreover, different forms of empowering women may lead to …

school day by mothers of eligible children in the stipend district when compared with mothers of eligible children in the non …-stipend district. There is a 100-minute reduction in the amount of time mothers report spending on children?s needs. The intent … on the time allocation of mothers in rural program-eligible households. Using a fixed effects difference …

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 …

Substantial work has demonstrated that early nutrition and home environments, including the degree to which children … receive cognitive stimulation and emotional support from parents, play a profound role in influencing early childhood … children in the preschool years living in low-income countries. Using panel data on parenting, nutrition status, and early …

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 …