,000 children born between 1979 and 1987 in the Canadian province of Manitoba. These children are followed until 2006, and their … records are linked to provincial registries with outcomes data. We compare children with health conditions to their own …

between two possible explanations. The first is that low-SES children are less able to respond to a given health shock. The … second is that low SES children experience more shocks. We show, using panel data on Canadian children that: 1) the gradient … we estimate in the cross section is very similar to that estimated previously using U.S. children; 2) both high and low …

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health and development outcomes of children. One … channel through which increased income may operate is an improvement in a family's ability to provide food, shelter, clothing … investigated the relationship between income and the psychological wellbeing of the family. By reducing stress and conflict, more …

, second we use a variety of measures of infant health, and finally we track children through their schooling years and into …

We study the relationship between in utero exposure to military exercises and children's early-life health outcomes in …

family income on children’s health with age relates to their use of health care services. Drawing on a nationally …. Not only do children in families with lower incomes and with mothers with lower levels of education have worse health on … representative survey from Canada, the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, this study provides further evidence of a …