. Analyses of a large-scale longitudinal dataset in the U.S., and a much smaller dataset of Chinese parents and children, show … trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which parents' physical characteristics transmit inequality across generations … that a one standard-deviation increase in parents' looks is associated with a 0.4 standard-deviation increase in their …

paper, we analyze data for over 174,000 Indian and Sub-Saharan African children to show that Indian firstborns are taller …. This pattern persists when we compare height between siblings, and also holds for health inputs such as vaccinations. Three … order gradient among Indian children and, consequently, the overall height deficit. First, the Indian firstborn height …

affects her children's health, but is also intrinsically linked to her spouse's labor market status and earnings. Paternal … health appears to be more linked to child schooling outcomes, especially for girls. When both parents are in poor health, the … negative effects on their children are compounded. Additionally, the consequences of poor parental health are enduring. Longer …

between parental educational attainments and adult health of the child generation can be attributed to pre- or post …-birth factors, respectively. We find a significant association between the educational attainment of the adopting parents and child … health outcomes as adults. These results suggest that growing up in a better-educated household has long-term effects on …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

Obesity has been one of the fastest growing health concerns among children, particularly among disadvantaged children … insight into the ways in which the environment that parents and children share has affected children's body mass, or into how … schools and day care play a potentially important role in determining children's health status …

This paper exploits a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on child health in Taiwan … wives of men in these groups in the period from 1978 through 1999. Parents' schooling, especially mother's schooling, does … indeed cause favorable infant health outcomes. The increase in schooling associated with the reform saved almost 1 infant …

of a child with a random and serious health problem (versus the birth of a healthy infant) on the likelihood that the …, we find that the shock of having a child with a serious health problem increases both the father's post-birth conviction … and incarceration by 1 to 8 percentage points, depending on the measure of infant health used …