outcomes. Using the health shock as an instrumental variable shows that the onset of a disability at age 25 causally reduces … model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an …

outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … different way. Men with brothers earn more and are more likely to get married and have children than men with sisters. Women …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest. …

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in … health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general … satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, the income equivalent of …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …

,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children …