larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human … indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …

compatible with the notion that children do better when their mothers control a more significant fraction of the family resources …-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …

substantial rise in neglect. The likely channel is lower quality-time spent with children rather than decreased financial … investments. Expenditures on children remain stable during recessions. Instead, higher local-area unemployment rate reduces …

-market opportunities on sleep patterns; the effect of having children; the consequences of the decreased division of labor within the …

impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

their children have better health outcomes than those of less educated women. Overall, our results suggest that the marriage …This paper examines the effects of female education on marriage outcomes by exploiting the exogenous variation … care and visiting their family. Furthermore, educated women have lower fertility and use more maternal health care, and …

Using data from 18 countries, we investigate the effects of child marriage bans on infant and under-5 mortality. We use …," calculated based on child marriage prevalence and marriage age prior to the ban. We find that child marriage bans reduced infant … age at first marriage and birth. …