child mortality by 17.57%, 17.54% and 14.28% among all children, sons and daughters, respectively. According to OLS … estimates, early marriage increases child mortality by 0.04, 0.02, and 0.02 among all children, sons, and daughters …, place of residence, wealth index, number of family members, women and children under five years and ethnicity affect the …

programs that target children. …

This paper studies children as a risky asset associated to an investment option. Children provide utility but have a … stochastic maintenance cost. We obtain several new results relative to models where children are deterministic goods, among which … correlation between income and child cost shocks. The household is reluctant to have children when positive cost shocks come …

the 1970s to allow adult children to stay on their parents’ insurance plans. These state level efforts successfully …

children. Keeping in view the theoretical background of existence of child labor across the world, the study analyzes the … incidence of child labor. The earning and participation functions were estimated for a sample of 150 children. All the …