. Women's BMIs decreased throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which may have implications for the health and … cognitive development of lower socioeconomic status children who reached maturity in the mid-20th century …

nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …

income-related child health inequality is family income itself, although other factors, such as maternal education, also play …We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

family types. We compare sibling differences in families where the mother enters the labor force when the children are older … out of the labor force during the entirety of her children’s adolescent years. Our identification strategy is, therefore …, in the spirit of traditional difference-in-differences, the first difference pertaining to the differences in children …

with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care … concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found …

investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are … respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child …

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …