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 …

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 …

mobility across generations. The data follow the children of Black and White Union Army veterans from birth to death, linking … them to the available censuses. The White samples include an over-sample of children of ex-POWs. A separate collection …

two births in families with at least two children, to estimate the effect of additional children on parents' labor supply … differences in the ages of children whose birth was caused by the instruments. The estimates imply that the labor supply …

emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness … has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or …

how parents' actions affect their children. In recent years, the literature on parenting within economics has increasingly … of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists have used the toolset of their discipline to understand what parents do and … developmental psychology literature, and have estimated detailed empirical models of children's accumulation of cognitive and …

, cognitive and socio-emotional skills. We observe children from age 1 to age 7. We assume that, at each age, these factors …