children living in poor households in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh state), Peru and Vietnam. By adopting a methodology to … disentangle gender differences produced by technology and preferences, I find evidence that the allocation of household resources … indicator of power distribution within the household, related to assortative mating in the marriage market, I find that maternal …

to IV estimation. -- malnutrition ; health ; schooling ; Barker hypothesis ; China Famine …

animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was …

male germ cell development. We build on this evidence and investigate whether undernutrition at that age biologically … transmits to children and grandchildren. Our findings indicate that third generation males (females) tend to have higher mental … health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was exposed to a famine during preadolescence. These …