This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake … collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children's stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and … the earthquake's aftermath. This aid mitigated but could not fully prevent the adverse effects on children's health and …

cohorts of children from poor households that benefited up to nine years from Familias en Acción, a CCT in Colombia, attained …Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children … census of the poor and administrative records of the program. We show that, on average, participant children are 4 to 8 …

refugee influx affects native working-age children's school enrollment and employment outcomes using a difference … stems from the transition of children who used to combine school and work into school only. School enrollment increases only …

discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT substantially improved school participation, it increased children …

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of …. First, we show that children living in municipality with high conflict have a gap in education enrollment and accumulation … respectively. Our results suggest significant education accumulation and enrollment gaps for children of IDPs that widens to over …

Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in … which these programs may affect children's activities. Based on a cluster-randomized trial, we examine how a program … providing capital and training to women in poor rural communities in Nicaragua affected children. Children in beneficiary …

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …

incentivizing parents, and not significantly different from it.In contrast, a conditional transfer program incentivizing children … about their child's attendance. Taken together, these results suggest that children have substantial agency in their … information only treatment and the alternative intervention incentivizing children substantially improve math test scores …