child mental health evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists for mental health problems, test whether …A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic … determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the …

districts in which these men were observed as children in the 1901 census. We find strong negative effects of coal intensity on … to the improvement in health (and the increase in height) during the twentieth century …

, university attendance, IQ and health? A structural model decomposes household shocks into permanent and transitory components …, then the effect of shocks at age 1-16 is estimated for 600,000 Norwegian children. The effect of permanent shocks declines …

Though the positive income gradient of child health is well documented in developed countries, evidence from developing … countries is rare. Few studies attempt to identify a causal link between family income and child health. Utilizing unique … longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …

implications of a diverse set of possible reforms to the main elements of tax and benefit support of families with children. We set …

allowing the marginal effects on children's outcomes of an increase in family income to vary across the income distribution …. Our nonlinear IV and fixed-effect estimates show an increasing, concave relationship between family income and children …

degree of crowding in the household. The evidence suggests that family size affected the health of children through its …In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health … of children, as the quality-quantity trade-off would suggest. We use microdata from a unique survey from 1930s Britain to …

In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from …

model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data … from the British National Child Development Study (NCDS). We show that such health shocks increase the likelihood of an … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …