outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant … and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong …

and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and … children's health care utilization in the years following the lottery and may also reduce obesity risk. The effects on most …) wealth and health or (ii) parental income and children's outcomes do not reflect a causal effect of wealth. …

We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health … causality mechanisms between these three components (school absenteeism, health status and child labor) can occur either way, it …

correlations to be genuinely causal. We reexamine the nutrition and cognition link, applying instrumental variable methods to a … sibling-difference specification for a sample of Peruvian pre-school children. We use household shocks and food price changes … accumulated deficits are sizeable considering that these children are only 3-6 years old and are yet to enroll in formal schooling …

adult antiretroviral therapy (ART) has on the health of such children. Using a triple difference specification, we find that …One in five Zambian children lives with an HIV/AIDS-infected adult. We estimate the effect that the availability of … adult access to ART resulted in increased weight-for-age and decreased incidence of stunting among children younger than 60 …

This paper investigates the changes to health care facilities and the nutritional status of Black children during the …

This study analyses and compares child health in Pakistan, Peru, Jamaica, Russia and South Africa. These countries … health, and in the nature and magnitude of the effects of its determinants. …

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest anti-poverty program in the U.S. In 1993, the EITC benefit levels … were changed significantly based on the number of children in the family such that families with two or more children … more children decreased statistically significantly relative to those with only one child, and the results are robust to …

) and noncognitive skills (persistence) until pre-school age using data from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk. Mother … families. Thus, children are exposed to mother-child interaction to varying degrees, with inequality-increasing consequences …

This paper provides new estimates of the medium- and long-term impacts of Head Start on health and behavioral problems … discontinuities. Participation in the program reduces the incidence of behavioral problems, health problems, and obesity of male … children at ages 12 and 13. It lowers depression and obesity among adolescents, and it reduces engagement in criminal …