This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …

explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms … Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). Our results show that especially fixed costs play an important role in …

secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … educated and affluent parents do much better on the screening tests that regulate access to the most selective tertiary …

have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018 … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …, we detected a negative effect on physical health. The latter is stronger if parental unemployment occurred in early …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …

We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and … Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal with omitted variable bias and reverse causality. Our first approach … attends to the issue of reverse causality by using health polygenic scores (PGSs) as proxies for actual adolescent health …

health, self-rated health to mortality. Our analytic sample includes about 8,000 Chinese persons age above 60. Using the …This paper examines the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and how the … contributions may vary across key dimensions of health. We link the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 …

. 6,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 … status, nutritional status, domestic violence, neighborhood, and health). We used multinomial regression models to examine … significant factors. Results show that worse health condition in childhood and unfavorable childhood and adolescent socioeconomic …