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 …

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 …

conditions for child development are worse. To identify the causal effect of children’s sport participation we exploit the panel …Previous research in developed countries suggests that sports participation can positively influence child development …. We use panel data of a cohort of 658 children in Peru to test this relationship in a less developed country where …

Previous research suggests that sports club participation of children in developed countries positively influences the … children’s well-being, health as well as human and social capital. We use panel data of a cohort of 1,579 children in Ethiopia … to having a causal interpretation. The findings suggest that the impact of programs, such as those provided in sport, can …