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

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941 …

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 …

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

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941 …

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 …

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 …