, and thus of their children, but evidence on this from low- and middle-income countries is scarce. We estimate the effect … Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam and Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation that employs rainfall shocks during mother’s … adolescence as instruments for mother’s nutritional status. We find a positive and significant effect of mother adolescent …

children of mothers who gave birth in their early twenties. …

impact on the behavior of family members. The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of children over 18 (generation … analysis was applied which showed that children have a relevant influence on shopping decisions of adults. Moreover, there are … differences in the assessment of this influence between children and parents. The degree of young people's impact on the shopping …

This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long …-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the …

This paper analyses the effects of maternal school starting age and maternal age-at-birth on children's short and long …-term outcomes using Finnish register data. We exploit a school-starting-age rule for identification. Mothers who are born after the …

Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the …

children of December-born mothers, the children of January-born mothers are more likely to have very low birthweight. We then …We study the effects of school starting age on siblings' infant health. In Spain, children born in December start … discontinuity design to compare the health at birth of the children of women born in January versus the previous December, using …

that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …