We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal …

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …

the optimal ratio. The optimal debt ratio or debt burden should take into account the vulnerability of consumption to …

Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from … education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that … determines an individual's demand for knowledge and health based on the causal effects, and study the impacts on the individual …

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