investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …

link. Children's health behaviour and the health accumulated over the life course appear as important channels. The …

control, while we do not find any relationship in the case of specific training. Actual post-training wages for those who …

forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …

Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …. Specifically, an additional year or schooling is estimated to increase hourly wages by 10 percent for men and 12.6 percent for …

children who have a sibling in poor health persistently lag behind other children in their cognitive development - but only for … cognitive developmental gaps. The results are strongest when the ill-health in the sibling is of a temporary rather than longer …

Wages grow but also become more unequal as workers age. Using German administrative data, we largely attribute both …

-STEM fields on the wages of other workers in the same metropolitan area. I find that both types of college graduates create …