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. …

, 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 study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to … particular, more impatient children and adolescents are more likely to spend money on alcohol and cigarettes, have a higher body … attitudes are only weak predictors of field behavior. -- experiments with children and adolescents ; risk ; ambiguity ; time …