We show that children who are born at the weekend or just before are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children's development … for a sample of uncomplicated births from low educated mothers. We find that breastfeeding has large effects on children …

migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … home village when they were young we find a sizable adverse impact of exposure to parental migration on children's health …

differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …

differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …