The incidence of adiposity in the early years of life has outgrown the prevalence rate in older children and … parental unemployment on children's weight before, during and after a recession. Child growth charts are used to quantify … children according to overweight for BMI, weight for age, and weight for height measures. For BMI, the probability of a child …

countries face. Elderly people who are left behind may experience a decrease in welfare when their children migrate. This paper … investigates the effect of migration on various dimensions of elderly health using unique data from Moldova, which has one of the …-reported health. No effects are found on depression and cognitive capacity. We trace these positive outcomes to an income effect which …

outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant … and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong …'s outcomes. -- education ; cognitive skills ; non-cognitive skills ; health ; causality ; schooling reforms …

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on … health care. Both a panel analysis of districts and an assessment at the individual level yield the result that increasing …

a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early …'s baseline health and the interventions' effectiveness. Children, who are non-anemic at baseline, improve in receptive language … auf Anämie oder geistige Entwicklung. Jedoch ergibt sich eine Kreuzproduktivität zwischen der Gesundheit der Kinder zu …

a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early …’s baseline health and the interventions’ effectiveness. Children, who are non-anemic at baseline, improve in receptive language …The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In …

a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early …'s baseline health and the interventions' effectiveness. Children, who are non-anemic at baseline, improve in receptive language … auf Anämie oder geistige Entwicklung. Jedoch ergibt sich eine Kreuzproduktivität zwischen der Gesundheit der Kinder zu …

Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the … the mother's health and health-related behaviours and exposures are systematically positively associated with the …

order, health at birth and in childhood, and parental health investment. High-quality administrative data on children born … order differences in parental health investment. Compared to their later-born siblings, first-born children are more likely … known about birth order effects on health. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between birth …

We study the effects of parental job loss on children's health, educational achievement and labor market success as … loss are a selected group. Using Swedish register data, including more than 140,000 children whose parents were displaced … due to workplace closures, and conditioning on a wide set of pretreatment outcomes of both parents and children, we find …