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 …

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 …

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 …

schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects …

children, and health habits of older children. We use unique panel data from the Kyrgyz Republic for 2005-2008 and thus control … were larger for girls than for boys. We also found evidence of stunting and wasting among young children and worse health … development in the future. -- children's education and health ; remittances ; Central Asia …

The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children …

children who have a sibling in poor health persistently lag behind other children in their cognitive development - but only for …We explore the extent to which starting primary school earlier by up to one year can help shield children from the … Australian Children, we employ a Regression Discontinuity Design based on birthday eligibility cut-offs. We find that Australian …

early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in …

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence … supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses … short-run. -- Intrahousehold allocation ; health ; human capital ; fertility ; quantile treatment effects ; stochastic …