will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

demographic and health surveys covering the last twenty years. Over the 1980s and 1990s, the infant mortality rate, under-5 …, especially in the 1990s, the pace of health improvement was slower than that recorded during the prior decades. In addition, the … distribution between countries of aggregate health improvements became markedly more skewed. These trends are in part explained by …

market outcomes of the children whose parents were affected by them, perhaps because benefits are hard to measure or confined … adults, particularly for disadvantaged children; however the gains may be less pronounced when high quality subsidized child …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

parental health investments, economic recouping, and foreign aid, which facilitate subsequent catch-up growth of children. We …A substantial share of the world's children reside in disaster-prone areas and suffer from stunted growth. Child growth … in the first 1000 days of life can falter depending on health endowments and investments. We investigate growth faltering …