Um Armut zu bekämpfen, muss die menschliche Entwicklung gestärkt werden. Allerdings werden heute 250 Millionen Kinder … Robustheit der elterlichen Präferenzen als Hauptdeterminanten der Größenunterschiede zwischen Kinder... …To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 …

Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and … generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is one potential determinant of health at birth that has received increasing … children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

age on offspring human capital in terms of health and cognition. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for … phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …

We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and … Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal with omitted variable bias and reverse causality. Our first approach … attends to the issue of reverse causality by using health polygenic scores (PGSs) as proxies for actual adolescent health …

young cohort and 443 of the old cohort - children in five regions in the country over two rounds from the Young Lives Survey …. The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of child nutrition and health on their cognitive achievements measured … there are regional, residence, and gender disparities in the cognitive skills of the children in each cohort an appropriate …

Sweden was early to legalize same-sex partnership (1995), to allow same-sex couples to adopt children (2003), and to … offer same-sex couples fertility treatment through the national health system (2005). Using population data, we identify … children of lesbian parents as those whose biological mother was a registered same-sex partner no later than six months after …