To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 … determinants of the height gap between children in India and sub-Saharan Africa as Jayachandran & Pande (2... …

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 …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …

's baseline health and the interventions' effectiveness. Children, who are non-anemic at baseline, improve in receptive language …The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early …

's baseline health and the interventions' effectiveness. Children, who are non-anemic at baseline, improve in receptive language …The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early …

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 …

Though parental education is widely perceived to be an important determinant of child nutrition outcomes, there remain … significant uncertainties about whether maternal or paternal education matters most, whether there are increasing or decreasing … returns to parental education, and whether these returns are robust given that recent gains in enrollment have not always …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …