children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose …

the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between …

Poor health at birth has negative long-run effects on individual well-being and is also detrimental for … intergenerational mobility. This paper examines whether health outcomes at birth are affected by in utero increased exposure to rainfall … shocks by municipality and date of birth. The analysis finds negative effects of temperature shocks on birth health outcomes …

-of-pocket expenditures (OOPE) and emotional distress to the parents besides the medical problems and further financial costs to the health … insurance system. According to the results on infants' state of health, OOPE and emotional distress are significantly increased … caregivers and children) are the main categories that should be evaluated measuring personal burden of preterm birth on families …