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

. 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 …

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 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …

'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 …

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