This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children’s health from birth until the age of three …, our results further support the advice to parents of young children not to smoke. -- Indoor and outdoor pollution ; health …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child’s health during the first three years of life …

und Kompetenzen auch im Schulalter und im Erwerbsleben ist. Für benachteiligte Kinder scheint somit die …

during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly …

In this paper, we examine how orphanhood affects children’s educational and health outcomes in eleven sub … with a biological parent) to orphans. Using household fixed-effects estimation, we provide evidence that children not …-Saharan African countries. Our analysis is based on a comparison of orphans and non-orphaned children living under the same conditions …

Tagesbetreuung für Kinder im Alter von 13 bis 36 Monaten. Wir schätzen mit SOEP-Daten und unter Berücksichtigung partiell …

, die Anzahl Kinder im Haushalt, das Haushaltseinkommen sowie der Besuch einer Bildungseinrichtung keinen Zusammenhang mit …

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at … one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical … over time. A one percent increase in birth weight increase child’s noncognitive skills by 0.34 percent and child’s health …