health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a children s home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger …

of AIDS-related mortality in rural sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter 2 shows that households in rural Zambia are able to … bereavement has important consequences for children's long-term capital accumulation in terms of both health and education. These …-sex children from the detrimental effects of orphanhood, suggesting that risks are not equally shared within households. The second …

divorce has persistent, and mostly negative, effects on children that differ significantly between boys and girls. Treated …