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 …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental … sizeable for families with children. …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in … fixed effects estimation. We obtain modest but significant effects of fetal growth rate on math and reading scores, with the …

children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children's skills. …

-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …

Peer and cohort effects are important in health economics, and obesity may be related to social relationships, where …

, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill … accumulation, permanently lowering children's skill levels. To the extent that making up for cognitive skill losses during …