We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …

’s employment on children’s wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and … non-mothers who work and mothers who do not work are more likely to agree that pre-school children suffer if mothers work …

Parental influences on children health related behaviours are argued to be gender assortative (e.g., that maternal … representative sample of English children and their parents for the period 1996-2009. We examine the magnitude and change of the … age 0.7 percentage point among infants to 1.3-1.4 percentage points among schooled children and teenagers. However, we …

effects on school grades, but these negative effects are largely confined to children born extremely preterm (<28 weeks of … gestation, i.e. born at least 10 weeks earlier). Children born moderately preterm (i.e. born up to 5 weeks early) suffer no ill … school environment is very important for the outcomes of preterm born children, such that those born extremely preterm that …

, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant … children's regular growth check-ups and deworming treatments, consistent with an increased awareness of children's weight and …