. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three …Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children's health … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation …

by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …

determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the … child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether … the different reports for the estimated income gradient. We find that respondents frequently evaluate children differently …

and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …) Vocabulary, (3) Mathematics, (4) Reading and (5) Comprehension. We find that while left-handed children have a significantly … poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than …

Study, we estimate the intergenerational correlation of mental health between mothers, their children, and their … depressed is 63 percent higher for children whose mothers reported the same symptom 20 years earlier. Moreover, grandmother and … mental health reduces household income for their adult offspring by around 2 percent. …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic … characteristics. We also utilise an objective measure of children's exposure, namely, the level of cotinine - a metabolite of nicotine …

analysis is based on a sample of over 13,000 children (and their parents) drawn from the Health Survey for England. In …In an influential study Case et al. (2002) documented a positive relationship between family income and child health in … the US, with the slope of the gradient being larger for older than younger children. In this paper we explore the child …

commodities are normal goods, sweets and toys are luxury items for children. Children of lone parents have lower budget shares for … suggesting that children mimic their parent?s expenditure patterns. … expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System, and find that, whilst most …