Este documento de trabajo analiza los efectos que tiene la salud de los niños en países de bajos y medianos ingresos durante sus primeros años sobre su educación en el mediano plazo. El estudio usa las tres rondas de la base de datos del estudio Niños del Milenio en Etiopía, India, Perú y...

Globally, humanitarian needs have reached an historically unprecedented scale, undermining the ability of affected children to survive, grow, and thrive. Social protection holds the promise of addressing acute needs and risks faced by children in crisis contexts, while allowing for human capital...

Adolescence and early adulthood are periods of major biological, economic and social transitions for rural youth. They provide a critical window of opportunity for addressing chronic nutritional deficits from childhood, for “catch-up” growth, for providing a solid foundation for a healthy...

We use data from a large sample of low and middle income countries to study the association (or “gradient”) between child height and maternal education. While the strong positive association between child health and measures of parental socio-economic status (SES) is well established, we...