child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems are negatively related to children's willingness to …

of education on health behaviors. Using the number of academic track schools in a state as an instrumental variable for … years of schooling, we investigate the causal effect of schooling on health behavior such as smoking and related outcomes …

We use unique administrative German data to examine the role of childhood health for the intergenerational transmission … of human capital. Specifically, we examine the extent to which a comprehensive list of health conditions - diagnosed by … educated parents. In total, health conditions explain 18% of the gap in cognitive ability and 65% of that in language ability …

This paper provides the first full examination of the effect of German works councils on wages using matched employer …

Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell …. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model …, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant evidence of declining reservation wages …