Study, we estimate the intergenerational correlation of mental health between mothers, their children, and their … depressed is 63 percent higher for children whose mothers reported the same symptom 20 years earlier. Moreover, grandmother and … mental health reduces household income for their adult offspring by around 2 percent. -- intergenerational transmission …

Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation … implications for education policy. -- children ; cognitive ability ; parental investment ; handedness …

the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …

by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …

progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …

Economists rely heavily on self-reported measures of health status to examine the relationship between income and … no evidence of an income/health gradient using self-reported hypertension, but a large (about 14 times the size) gradient … in low income households. Given the wide use of such self-reported chronic health conditions in applied research, and the …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic … characteristics. We also utilise an objective measure of children's exposure, namely, the level of cotinine -- a metabolite of …

assessments. We find robust evidence that left-handed children do significantly worse in nearly all measures of development, with …, using data from child time use diaries, we find evidence that lefthanded children spend significantly less time each day on …