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Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal … site opened or closed within one mile of their home. I find that children who were exposed prenatally to industrial …
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determinants of the height gap between children in India and sub-Saharan Africa as Jayachandran & Pande (2... …To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 …
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The present study was focused on determining the educational status and factors affecting the education of children of … the families working in the mining region of Karauli District of Rajasthan, India. In this blended method research, a … total of 384 children students of class XI of 8 government schools were selected randomly after applying Krejcie and Morgan …
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This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...
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impact both younger and older children. The average treated student in our setting has an expected income reduction of $5 …
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