analysis is based on a sample of over 13,000 children (and their parents) drawn from the Health Survey for England. In … hypothesis that the NHS has a protective effect on the health of children in England. …In an influential study Case et al. (2002) documented a positive relationship between family income and child health in …

quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed …This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … opportunity to explore the determinants of child health in the era before the welfare state. We examine the trade-off between the …

This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are … particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … and child health are correlated with some common unobservable (say, low parental time preference) then least squares …

districts in which these men were observed as children in the 1901 census. We find strong negative effects of coal intensity on … to the improvement in health (and the increase in height) during the twentieth century. …

data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro-cyclical. A one … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health … evidence of three channels that can explain the overall negative effect of unemployment on new-born health: maternal stress …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …

Though the positive income gradient of child health is well documented in developed countries, evidence from developing … countries is rare. Few studies attempt to identify a causal link between family income and child health. Utilizing unique … longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …

How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by … how additional parental time and monetary resources impacts both the existing and new child's educational and health …. The effects are prevalent primarily among children to high-income mothers. Impacts are driven by a combination of a …

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their … used a lottery to assign children to limited public daycare openings. Winning the lottery translated to a 34 percent … which time all children were eligible for universal schooling). The rise in labor force participation is driven primarily by …

market and mental health outcomes of individuals whose spouses or children experience health shocks. We use data from the … shocks are more mixed, and we find no effects on parents of children with health shocks. Lastly, we show that improvements in … precise timing of hospitalizations and surgeries, our health shock measures. We use difference-in-difference and event …