changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …. We use data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) among elderly individuals. This survey is …, socioeconomic and health status. We find that being born during a recession or boom period significantly influences cognitive …

have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This … represents some of the first evidence of a causal effect of PE on youth obesity, and thus offers at least some support to the …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health … poor mental health. We also find that left-handed children have significantly lower cognitive development test scores than … and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse than their right-handed counterparts …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies – augmented with a …

Anhebung der Altersgrenze für Jugendliche auf 21 Jahre und ein Stufenmodell für Jugendliche nach britischem Vorbild. Die …

ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …