spills on surviving children …

When other economic measurements are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now well accepted … measures for cumulative and current net nutrition. However, as the ratio of weight to height, BMI is the ratio of current to … controlling for height as a measure for current net nutrition and shows that US black and white weights decreased throughout the …

How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation … in the interview dates of the 2008 Health and Retirement Study to assess the impact of large wealth losses on mental …

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economics. Nevertheless, a …

Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …

children with lower initial family incomes vs. children with higher initial family incomes. However, offsetting this effect …, our findings also suggest that as children grow up, changes in family income ranking over time are related to children …

risks analysis yields several striking results. 1) Females have only a 28% chance to die of cancer when they have children … unmarried males); 3) females with children have only a 34% risk to die of heart disease and 4) a 53% chance of dying from … infections (compared to females without children); 5) married men have an increased expectation of 23% to die of heart disease …

data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in …