Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the … causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within … effects on average child quality. Children from larger families have accumulated almost 1 year less of education, are less …

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children … cohorts of children from poor households that benefited up to nine years from Familias en Acción, a CCT in Colombia, attained … census of the poor and administrative records of the program. We show that, on average, participant children are 4 to 8 …

Conditional cash transfers are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in … whether cohorts of children from poor households that benefited up to nine years from Familias en Acción, a conditional cash … average, participant children are 4 to 8 percentage points more likely than nonparticipant children to finish high school …

Conditional cash transfers are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in … whether cohorts of children from poor households that benefited up to nine years from Familias en Acci??n, a conditional cash … average, participant children are 4 to 8 percentage points more likely than nonparticipant children to finish high school …

Exogenous variation in fertility from parental preferences for sex-mix among their children is used to identify the … causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within … effects on average child quality. Children from larger families have accumulated almost 1 year less of education, are less …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …