We show that parental socioeconomic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The … relationship can be explained by dimensions of a child's environment that are shown to di ffer by parental SES: quantity and … quality of time parents spend with their children, parenting style, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child …

This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia …

. This is of special relevance as investments in the early periods of life are shown to be most important for a child’s long … objective child development measures. Our results are thus not prone to reporting bias. We estimate the effect of early daycare …