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. …

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 …

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 …

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

monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county … evaluate a pediatric healthcare program, the Systematic Management of Children (SMC), which offers growth and development … provide evidence of several underlying mechanisms, including improved physical and mental health, better educational outcomes …

The variation in life-expectancy and health outcomes across countries and cohorts is striking. While medical progress … and climatic factors have received much attention, there is only relatively little we know about the health impact of … cumulative childhood exposure to democracy shapes adult health outcomes. It is found that growing up in bad regimes lastingly …

significantly higher than for those of similar individuals experiencing a health shock prior to the pandemic. …We study the determinants of individual aversion to health and income inequality in three European countries and the … effects of exposure to COVID-19 including the effect employment, income and health shocks using representative samples of the …

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 …

with regard to mothers ́mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care … concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found …