, 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 …

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

externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …

We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we …, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children have a … roughly 8% higher survival probability than women without children. …