This study examines the impact of extreme weather events on violence against children inflicted by adult household … significantly increases the probability of children from pastoralist households to become victim of psychological and physical …Diese Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen extremer Wetterereignisse auf Gewalt gegen Kinder durch erwachsene …

Ten percent of Black children in the U.S. spend time in foster care--twice the rate of white children. We estimate …, we find that Black children are 1.7 percentage points (50%) more likely to be placed into foster care following an … investigation than white children conditional on subsequent maltreatment potential. This disparity is entirely driven by white …

and children spent at home. We use real-time, novel mobile phone movement data and quick-release administrative data on … more poverty. We also find that more time at home is positively related to educational neglect referrals among children in … areas with high poverty and higher referral rates. Our results highlight how children and families are faring during the …

economic and social costs for both individuals and societies. Disadvantaged children often fall behind in skills development …

We study how weather shocks interact with cultural norms biased against women to affect female poverty within the …

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 … - 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children …

(endogamy, age and education difference between spouses). Weather shocks provide an exogenous source of variation of household … income through agricultural production. Data on weather shocks are merged with individual and household level data from the …