consumer optimization model that incorporates endogenous fertility as well as endogenous education and health investments. The … model shows that a fertility decline induces higher education and health investments that are able to compensate for …

, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for …

rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …

's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …

supporting such a causal relationship − particularly on child health − is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children's willingness to …