Seasonal pollen allergies affect approximately 1 in 5 school age children. Clinical research has established that these …

We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and … personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

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

large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children …, long-lasting detrimental effects on the human capital formation, health and labor market outcomes of Germans who were at … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the …

health that makes a difference as far as child schooling is concerned. Children whose mothers self-reported having poor … and depression symptoms. Moreover, we find that mothers’ health shocks have more negative consequences on younger children …Evidence on the role of parental health on child schooling is surprisingly thin. We explore this issue by estimating …