Over the past two decades, Ethiopia has made significant progress in key human development indicators. Child mortality … young cohort and 443 of the old cohort - children in five regions in the country over two rounds from the Young Lives Survey … there are regional, residence, and gender disparities in the cognitive skills of the children in each cohort an appropriate …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …

school years) in four developing countries: Peru, Ethiopia, India, and Vietnam. Intercontinental evidence on the timing …This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children … that Peru stands out, not only as the country with the largest cross-section disparity between rich and poor (of around 1 …

phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal … age on offspring human capital in terms of health and cognition. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …