children and adolescents in the education system. The inferences at the end of this article underline how important it is for …

In Uruguay, social spending reduces poverty. The aim of this paper is to compare its performance for children and the … elderly. The main motivation is that in Uruguay, as in the rest of Latin America, poverty affects mostly children, even after … follows: a) households with children (elder) are the less (more) likely to leave poverty, b) the reason is the per capita …

. We randomly selected households that had at least two school-age children (6–18 years) of different genders. Parents …Using experimental techniques, we identify parental attitudes toward different-gendered children in rural Bangladesh … toward children of a specific gender; 2) neither parent is systematically biased; 3) there are no significant differences in …

This paper investigates whether parents’ inherent gender bias is associated with intrahousehold human capital … investment among boys and girls. We conduct an artifactual field experiment to identify parents’ inherent gender bias and then … attempt to examine how this attitude correlates with the actual decisions regarding schooling and health of their own children …

third of all drug costs for the children studied. From 1999 to 2001 prescription drug costs increased seven times more than … have examined this trend in children with special health care needs. This study used data from two large commercial managed … care plans in UnitedHealth Group to examine how many and what kinds of prescription drugs these children used, as well as …