Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that … with product demand at Brazil's export destinations and real exchange rate components. Worker effects are important …

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 …

for children's development. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing the short-and long-run effects on children's health … children's education - not, however, on health. The effects on children's education aggravate over time. Empirical evidence … and education of a specific shock: housing damages caused by a super typhoon. Our results reveal negative effects on …

children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children's reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children …