An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and … families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children … experiences parental incarceration today, compared to one in 125 children in 1985. Black children are particularly affected by …

to a child. Instead, they seem to mirror the psychological effects of having, raising, and investing in children …

to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …

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 …

children consider parental wealth as part of their own precautionary savings. We do not find strong evidence of any of these … transfers from parents to children are significant exactly around the time where children buy their first home. Using a panel … data set issued from Danish administrative registers with information about wealth of a sample of first-time homeowners and …

a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left … associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show …-behind children relative to children who migrate with their parents. Additional results from a standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …