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 …

at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit …, 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 …

We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to …

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 …

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

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. …

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

In this paper, we develop a life cycle model in which health and longevity are threatened by infectious and chronic … diseases. The model captures that the susceptibility and severity of infectious diseases depend on the accumulated health … deficits (immunosenescence) and that the life history of infections affects the accumulation of chronic health deficits …