children who have a sibling in poor health persistently lag behind other children in their cognitive development - but only for …We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the … Australian Children, we employ a Regression Discontinuity Design based on birthday eligibility cut-offs. We find that Australian …

Um Armut zu bekämpfen, muss die menschliche Entwicklung gestärkt werden. Allerdings werden heute 250 Millionen Kinder … Robustheit der elterlichen Präferenzen als Hauptdeterminanten der Größenunterschiede zwischen Kinder... …To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 …

terms of health, rural-urban migration is selective in that healthy rural residents choose to migrate. Occupational choices … and living conditions are detrimental to migrants' health, however. While migration has a positive effect on migrant … children, its effect on "left-behind" children is unclear. …

Children who grow up in more highly educated families have better labor market outcomes as adults than those who grow … children. This paper attempts to improve our understanding of the causal processes that contribute to intergenerational … schooling levels have an affect on children's outcomes that is independent of their innate ability and suggests that public …