the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …

progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …

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 …

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 …