people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these … effects should differ between people with children and people without children. Public support to families is also expected to … working hours are weak and insignificant. In regressions with time spent caring for children as a dependent variable, the …

claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …-term effects of Vietnam-era military service on health and work in the 2000 Census. These estimates show no significant overall …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index … due to the education reforms did not significantly affect health knowledge: a one-year increase in schooling is estimated …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …

current happiness and self-esteem of the children. We find that a past unemployment spell of the father has important … consequences for their children and leads to them having both lower subjective well-being and self-confidence. In addition, this …-esteem predicts educational attainments at 16. Together these findings offer new evidence of unemployment scarring on children …

, divorce significantly increases the odds that a woman with children is poor. …

frequent users. Education and the exposure to media coverage also matters. We find a large impact of suicide attacks during …