from a birth cohort that has been followed from birth into middle age. We find, controlling for parents' incomes …, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter …

Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age is an important first step in … uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children … the same source, reach markedly different conclusions about income-health gradients in childhood. We find that differences …

We estimate the impact of family structure on investments made in children's health, using data from the 1988 National … Health Interview Survey Child Health Supplement. Controlling for household size, income and characteristics, we find that … children living with step mothers are significantly less likely to have routine doctor and dentist visits, or to have a place …

that the economic circumstances of parents matter: increases in the fractions of children with absent fathers and working …This paper examines how child maltreatment is affected by the economic circumstances of parents. 'Child maltreatment …' encompasses a wide range of behaviors that adversely affect children. It includes neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other …

attainment of taller individuals. We then turn to the NLSY79 Children and Young Adult Survey to better understand what specific …

This paper reexamines differences found between income gradients in American and English children's health, in results … the same time period, the income gradient in children's health increases with age by the same amount in the two countries … are larger in the English sample than in the American sample, and that income plays a larger role in buffering children …

of socioeconomic status may work through the impact of parents' long run average income on children's health … Examination Survey, we find that children's health is positively related to household income. The relationship between household … income and children's health status becomes more pronounced as children grow older. A large component of the relationship …