This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income … maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for …

outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant … and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong …

public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

information on their health status at the age of 18 and later educational attainment, we investigate whether educational … attainment is related to early health status within monozygotic twin pairs. In general, we obtain no indication of this being so …. As a result, we find little evidence that early health differences between twins would bias the estimates of the returns …

We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the … entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations …