The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children … experimentally designed, five-year home visiting program in Ireland targeting disadvantaged families - Preparing for Life (PFL). We …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is … associated with an increase in birth weight driven by increased gestational length and fetal growth rate. The effect size is …

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV … education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 …-1929 covering birth weight, family characteristics, school grades, sibling identifiers, and outcomes later in life including the …

Early term birth is defined as birth at 37 or 38 weeks gestation. While infants born early term are not considered … premature, the medical literature suggests that they have an increased risk of serious adverse health outcomes compared to … changes in medical practice and show that early term inductions lead to an increased risk of precipitous labor, lower birth …

impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … documented - but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

We investigated the effects of the timing of early prenatal care on infant health by exploiting a reform that required … deaths, we identified small but statistically significant positive effects of the policy on neonatal health. We further … provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy are plausible …

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper … more effective because we do not find any detrimental long-term effects for exposed children from higher socioeconomic … backgrounds. In contrast, exposed children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have significantly worse labor market outcomes as …

, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies …