Every minute, at least one woman dies from pregnancy and childbirth complications; a further 20 suffer injury …

Meal Program (SMP) on the nutritional status of children attending public and subsidized schools. I estimate the effects on … concentrated among overweight or obese children. Effects are driven by improvements in nutritional quality of meals ….Non-sedentary students, children with higher socioemotional skills, and those receiving mental health services reap larger benefits from the …

Meal Program (SMP) on the nutritional status of children attending public and subsidized schools. I estimate the effects on … concentrated among overweight or obese children. Effects are driven by improvements in nutritional quality of meals ….Non-sedentary students, children with higher socioemotional skills, and those receiving mental health services reap larger benefits from the …

children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication …

children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication …

This study develops a literacy profile of Ontario's youth (ages 17 to 25) using data from the International Adult … Literacy Survey. The analysis concentrates on Canadian-born youth only. Because of sample limitations, it was not possible to … explore the literacy skills of foreign-born youth. IALS classifies respondents into 5 levels of literacy, across 3 literacy …

This paper estimates the effects of birth order on education. This paper is the first to control for the mother’s age … at first birth. While previous studies find that earlier-born children are better off, this paper finds no effects. …

In this paper we have investigated the impact of the level of education on the number of children in Italy. We have … variable is represented by the number of children ever born to each respondent (and to his partner). Since the number of … children ever born (CEB) is a count variable, we have implemented three empirical models: Poisson, Zero-Truncated Poisson and …