effects of these determinants. However, socioeconomic background variables and policy interventions may affect child nutrition …

This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake … earthquake on child nutrition and schooling in the short-term. Relevantly, amid the aid received by the affected area, the …

the US, with the slope of the gradient being larger for older than younger children. In this paper we explore the child … analysis is based on a sample of over 13,000 children (and their parents) drawn from the Health Survey for England. In … evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …

compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in children aged seven to ten. The experiment took place in the … children´s natural environment - their schools. We also checked for cultural variability of our results by conducting our study … with German children and with children from a highly egalitarian society: the Eastern Penan of northern Borneo. We found …

altruistic behavior in children. We study a sample of German school children aged seven to ten in a natural setting. We run two … treatments. One treatment investigates envy, the other one studies altruism. Additionally, we collect data on the children … children are significantly more altruistic. Boys care more about their relative position than girls. Socio …

We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the …