Session 42:
Cross-Cultural Studies of Child Development
Chair: Leticia J. Marteleto, University of Texas at Austin
Discussant: Xiaogang Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Costly Posturing: Relative Status, Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China • Xi Chen, Yale University ; Xiaobo Zhang, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Catch-up Effects in Health Outcomes – Linear and Quantile Regression Estimates from Four Countries • Subha Mani, Fordham University ; Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania ; Andreas Georgiadis, University of Oxford
Exploiting Externalities to Estimate the Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Deworming • Owen Ozier, World Bank Group
The Daughter Tax: Maternal Consequences of Female Children in Twenty-Eight Developing Countries • Abigail Weitzman, New York University (NYU)
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