Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation … implications for education policy. -- children ; cognitive ability ; parental investment ; handedness …

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this … paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides … by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and …

Passive smoking is a major public health issue. This paper documents the main risk factors that determine children … of children drawn from the Health Survey for England, for whom we match parental and household smoking and demographic … income and child health. -- passive smoking ; child health ; parental smoking ; cotinine ; income …

household income only being a significant predictor of death from cancer. Moreover, we find that children born in a location … from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records … results confirm that childhood conditions such as household income and the quality of the home environment are significant …

A large body of empirical research links mental health and labour market outcomes; however, there are few studies that … effectively control for the two-way causality between work and health and the existence of unobserved individual characteristics … that might jointly determine health and labour market outcomes. In this study, we estimate the effect of mental health on …