partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which …

destination. These comparisons suggest that positive selection is partly responsible for the health advantage of recent immigrants. …This paper provides new empirical evidence on the contribution of selective migration to the health advantage of … from the Vital Statistics, it compares the health distribution (in terms of birth outcomes) of immigrant children born in …

impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where … contributing to these health gains. -- medical technology ; birth ; home birth ; mortality …

health outcomes also allows for an individual level panel data strategy. We find that the behavior of specialist physicians …

's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …

health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …

births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non- IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor … market outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health …

study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of … Sweden over two decades, we show that the closures negatively affected the health of mothers, while effects on infant health …

consequential effects on maternal and newborn health in Mexico for 2008-2015. It models how changes in the obesity level of …