parental mortality. Results: Based on 7 measures of sex composition, we find no protective effect of sons in either China or … Taiwan. For example, in the 1989 Taiwan sample, the hazard ratio for maternal mortality associated with having an eldest son … is 0.979 (95% CI (0.863, 1.111). In Taiwan, daughters may have been more beneficial than sons in reducing mortality in …

document outcomes among individuals with deceased parents. I focus first on minors and find that about 2 million children in … orphan population in the United States. Relative to children with both parents living, these maternal and paternal orphans … potentially affected by the earnings of deceased parents prior to death and by awareness of benefit eligibility by adult members …

We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents … left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … and exogenous variation in children's astrological characteristics and apply instrumental variables methods. We find a …

We examine the effect of domestic violence on mortality of children born to female victims using Demographic and Health … violence and child mortality while controlling for potential confounds. We find that children of (ever) victimized mothers are … within the first five years of being born in comparison with children born to mothers who never experienced violence. We find …

India accounts for 1.7 million child deaths, a quarter of global child mortality. The current literature has succeeded … in establishing an association between domestic violence and child mortality, but has yet to present evidence of a causal … mother on child mortality in the Indian context. Domestic violence is instrument ed with the real price o f gold at the time …