, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …

This paper aims to identify the causal effect of English language skills on education, health and fertility outcomes of … degrees, but do not affect child health and self-reported adult health. The impact of language on fertility outcomes is also …

on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely …-economic, biological and health data from over 75k individuals aged between 18 and 63. We conclude that women born in adverse economic …

This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that … health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our … conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests …

Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services … hypothetical investment scenarios. We show that perceived returns are predictive of health investments and outcomes, and that less … educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …

We analyze whether field of study assigned at age 16 impacts mental health in adulthood. Using a regression … discontinuity design that exploits GPA cut-offs, we find that admission to the preferred study field improves mental health …, lowering both the incidence of antidepressant prescriptions and of mental health-related hospitalizations. Engineering …

Despite their lower socioeconomic status, Hispanic immigrants in the United States initially have better health … outcomes than natives. Paradoxically while second-generation immigrants assimilate socio-economically, their health … deteriorates. I show that a model of selection and intergenerational transmission of health reverses the apparent paradox …

better health at birth even conditional on the observable maternal characteristics which predict selection. …

This paper studies the effects of assimilation on the health of Hispanics in the US. I exploit a unique dataset of … socio-economic gradient in health, third-generation children of second- generation intermarried Hispanic women are more … likely to have poor health at birth, even after I account for second-generation health at birth, employ only within …