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 …

This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises …. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health … are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway. …

population to the brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the …

migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … home village when they were young we find a sizable adverse impact of exposure to parental migration on children's health …

crisis-time children; adverse health effects are mainly observed in children born to mothers with low socio-economic status … Demographic Health Surveys (DHS), we find that a higher regional GDP contributes significantly to better birth outcomes among … economic recessions. Thus, our results demonstrate that regional-level regressions estimating potential infant health costs of …

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

health shock. This gradient is partly driven by differential impacts on health and human capital across the socioeconomic …We examine the role of health shocks in childhood and parental background in transmitting intergenerational inequality …. We use Danish administrative registry data (a setting with universal access to health care) and the quasi-random onset of …

Using Norwegian administrative register data, we assess the impact of health shocks hitting lone parents, specifically … to the deteriorating health of a parent tend to be short-lived and mostly manifest as temporary absences from work rather …

, where violence is endemic and are particularly pronounced among children of poorly educated mothers, implying that violence … compounds the disadvantage that these children already suffer as a result of their households' lower socioeconomic status. …