This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and …, which was implemented across federal states at different points in time. Maternal schooling reduces children's smoking and … overweight in adolescence. The effects persist into children's adulthood, reducing chronic conditions that often result from …

and the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, cannot explain the … the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children …'s life expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to women and men as …

particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … estimates of the effect of parental education will be biased upwards. Moreover, it is very common for parental income data to be … grouped, in which case income is measured with error and the coefficient on income will be biased towards zero and there are …

, including early health, skills, and the parents' and child's own attitudes towards education, as well as outcomes related to …

(SES) can also improve the well-being of their children. This chapter identifies several channels for this effect, drawing … maternal well-being can affect not only a woman's own children, but future generations as well. Finally, the chapter highlights …

three generations (grandparents-parents-children) to explore the effects of parental education and different parental … behaviour and the corresponding parental variables to aid the identification of parents' education and smoking on birth weight … levels and smoking behaviours across generations. Higher parental education reduces the likelihood of children's low birth …

and occupation at age 36-40, and pension income at age 71. Leveraging quasi-random variation in eligibility by birth date …, we find very substantial increases in employment (especially in the public sector) and income among women, alongside …

migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …