In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while …

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 …

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 …

finds that children born into consanguineous marriages have lower test scores, lower height-for-age, and a higher likelihood … maternal grandparent mortality as instruments for consanguineous marriage of parents …

paper reviews the micro-level evidence of disaster impacts on the livelihoods of the poorest households. The evidence …

have to consider the inability of rural households to shield the well-being of children from the consequences of extreme …

and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …