covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that …

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 …

We present a field experiment to study the effects of non-monetary incentives on healthy food choices of 282 children … classmates as change agents by providing them with information regarding the food choices of their children or friends. We find …

children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

-Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a family and female … household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the probability of female employment … relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six years are 21.5 percentage …

studies suggests that micronutrients may play an important role in the cognitive development of children. However, the results …

larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market …

This paper investigates the role of children in explaining the life-cycle pattern of consumption (which is hump … of U.K. households was exploited to investigate whether currently childless households that anticipate having children … behave differently from similar households that do not anticipate children. Spending for each group at different ages was …

dissolution on children's human capital formation. Previous studies applying sibling fixed effects estimators find that the timing … of divorce has no direct effects on children's outcomes and conclude that the observed raw associations between child age … data sources consisting of the universe of all children that experienced parental divorces in Denmark from 1982 onwards. We …