homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a region in northwestern Tanzania - received more than 500,000 refugees … intensity. I exploit this variation to investigate the short and long run causal effects of hosting refugees on the outcomes of … local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of …

homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a region in northwestern Tanzania - received more than 500,000 refugees … intensity. I exploit this variation to investigate the short and long run causal effects of hosting refugees on the outcomes of … local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of …

. -- Civil conflicts ; refugees ; children ; human capital ; health ; Africa … homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a region in northwestern Tanzania - received more than 500,000 refugees … intensity. I exploit this variation to investigate the short and long run causal effects of hosting refugees on the outcomes of …

adult refugees, particularly mothers, is widely recognized as a crucial determinant of their children's psychological health …Forced displacement is a major driver of mental health disorders among refugees globally. The mental well-being of … multifaceted psychosocial program in improving the mental health of refugee mothers, and fostering growth and development among …

cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status - shorter individuals show a stronger …

monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county … evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development … provide evidence of several underlying mechanisms, including improved physical and mental health, better educational outcomes …

Hundreds of millions of children in less developed countries suffer from poor health and nutrition. Children in most … in developed countries. Recent research has shown that poor health and nutrition among children reduces their time in … school and their learning during that time. This implies that programs or policies that increase children's health status …

care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …

reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, a country with very high stunting …,604 children under the age of 5. To identify the effect of aid, we rely on spatial and temporal variation in aid project coverage … already for children born in the early project implementation phase and lasts for children born up to 3 years after project …

-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold … bargaining power within the household, leading to improved parental investments for children. These study findings are also …