show that, in terms of health setbacks, children exposed in utero only to the former suffered as much as those exposed to … agricultural economies with a single harvest per year, this type of shock can affect households through two channels: first, a … stronger crop failure effect for children born in isolated areas. …

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. …

Oil spills can lead to irreversible environmental degradation and pose hazards to human health. We are the first to … Oil Spill Monitor and the Demographic and Health Surveys, and rely on the comparison of siblings conceived before and … across locations and socio-economic backgrounds. We also provide some evidence for negative health effects of nearby oil …

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

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

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

commodity price shocks. Both approaches deliver similar conclusions. Specifically, an unfavorable food commodity market shock …

, the transition into DST deteriorates sleep and increases time stress, which in turn affects physical and emotional health …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …