We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of … their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …

We study the relationship between a key early intervention policy designed to support families with children up to the … age of four and the rate at which children are taken into social care. The gradual build-up of over 3,600 Sure Start … Children's Centres (SSCC), operated by Local Authorities across England, created large spatial and cohort variation in the …

causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and … negative for children aged 11-12 (substitution from grandparental to formal childcare) …

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … hospitalization for mental health-related reasons by the age of 30. We find that there is no clear evidence of increased … death. We also provide descriptive evidence of an increase in the use of mental health-related medications and sickness …

We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health …

, private investment in children's health and education and human capital accumulation. I have used a growth model with … an additional factor that affects children's human capital, which is health. I analyze the overall society-wide effect of …This article analyzes the effect of public policy intervention in the production of health capital on fertility …

-curricular activities, on children's skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: both cognitive skills, measured by school …

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of … their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …