experiences. As children are vulnerable to early life experi- ences, whether they have a good or bad start has long … of longitudinal data following children for a long time. More recently, studies focusing on developing countries are … beginning to emerge with the maturity of some longitudinal datasets tracking children, even if it remains much to discover in …

This paper provides novel evidence on differences in health outcomes of children in religious and non … does not affect children's height-for-age, but increases children's body mass index and subjective health. Father …'s religiosity has a stronger salutary effect than mother's religiosity. In fatherless families, children's health is more strongly …

To reduce sugar intake in children, California regulates the provision of sugar-sweetened beverages and juice by child … care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their … more juice for their children after child cares limit their juice provision, but such offsetting behavior disappears after …

migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … home village when they were young we find a sizable adverse impact of exposure to parental migration on children's health …

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