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 …

affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a … billion per year, while household income rises only by EUR 1.1 billion per year. Poor households, i.e. those eligible for … employment depending on the subsidies' incidence and income effects. Wage subsidies also allow a more equal income distribution …

burden by about EUR 4 billion per year, while poor households' income rises only by EUR 1.1 billion per year. With pure wage … subsidies, the government can ensure more favorable employment and income effects. Combining a minimum wage with a wage subsidy …

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 …

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health …

show that, in terms of health setbacks, children exposed in utero only to the former suffered as much as those exposed to … stronger crop failure effect for children born in isolated areas …

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … health care. Both a panel analysis of districts and an assessment at the individual level yield the result that increasing …

children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children’s skills …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …’ preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes …