-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been severely wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming … their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

,000 children born between 1979 and 1987 in the Canadian province of Manitoba. These children are followed until 2006, and their … records are linked to provincial registries with outcomes data. We compare children with health conditions to their own …

daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in …

Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age is an important first step in … uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children …

, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter … adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …

between two possible explanations. The first is that low-SES children are less able to respond to a given health shock. The … second is that low SES children experience more shocks. We show, using panel data on Canadian children that: 1) the gradient … we estimate in the cross section is very similar to that estimated previously using U.S. children; 2) both high and low …