their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet …We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy … are plausible channels through which the reform might have affected fetal health. …

We study the consequences of mothers' and fathers' job loss for parents, families, and children. Rich Swedish register … with universal health care and free education is likely to be protective for children. … propensity score matching and controlling for pre-displacement outcomes. Our overall conclusion is positive: childhood health …

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

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 2015, 15% of all children in China were left behind in the countryside because at least one of their parents … (CFPS) to investigate the dynamic effects of parental migration on the health of left behind young children (LBC). While we … migrated to a city. We implement an event study analysis between 2010 and 2018 on five waves of the China Family Panel Studies …

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 … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

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

We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …