experienced head are better able to protect their children from the negative consequences of the 2009/10 winter shock. There are …We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather shock on child height in Mongolia. Our focus is on the … effects by exploiting exogenous variation in the intensity of the shock across time and space. Results reveal that the shock …

This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health …. Instrumental variable estimates and difference-in-differences estimates reveal that increases in maternal schooling reduce children … children's education and improvements in their peer environment early in life are important for explaining the effects. Changes …

population six times between April and June 2020. Given the size of the Covid-19 shock, we find little evidence of portfolio …, benefit from the stock market recovery. Older individuals, parents of young children, and individuals affected by adverse … health and finances. …

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market out- comes. We focus on health shocks which … increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated … of children. This effect is more pronounced for daughters and for children who live close to their parents. Further …

children from low socioeconomic background are more likely to suffer from "objectively measured" health problems - except for …We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a … strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the …

This paper analyzes the influence of children's health and mothers' physical and mental wellbeing on female labor force … us to measure children's health based on the occurrence of severe health problems including mental and physical … disabilities, hospitalizations, and preterm births. Since child health is measured at a very young age, we can rule out any of the …

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 …

This paper investigates the causal impact of displacement on health outcomes for Colombian children of different age … leads to a lower subjective health status for children from all age cohorts. Yet, displaced children are not affected by … health problems significantly more often than non-displaced children. Last, but not least, displaced children from all age …

adults' well-being indirectly through the health of their children. Results show that ozone decreases the well-being of … workdays to care for a sick child, providing evidence on the children's health channel to adults' welfare losses. … individuals with children while not affecting persons without kids. We confirm the same effect for fine particulate matter and …

of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children's age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique …Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries …, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early …