. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more working-age adults are likely to grow faster than cities with more children … ratios, that is, with more children and/or seniors per working-age adult, grow significantly slower. Such effects are … particularly pronounced for cities with high shares of children. This result appears to be driven mainly by the direct, negative …

evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development … monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county …

"An estimated 20 million children born each year are at risk of brain damage from in utero iodine deficiency, the only … improvements in cognitive ability attributable to the intervention by assessing whether children who benefited from IOC in utero … exhibit higher rates of grade progression at ages 10 to 14 relative to siblings and older and younger children in the district …