Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a … great deal of attention. Programs of such early intervention, aiming at children's health and well-being, are spreading … parents' and a children's generation we show the intra-generational and the inter-generational redistributional consequences …

We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children … breastfeeding on children’s cognitive development but no effects on health or non-cognitive development during the period of …

prisoner’s dilemma is correlated with competitiveness in a sample of 9-12 year old children in Colombia and Sweden. Using two …

the importance of early investments in children when inter-stage investments are easily substitutable, but strengthens …