also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children …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 …

supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this … health.Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is … associated with an increase in birth weight driven by increased gestational length and fetal growth rate. The effect size is …

impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … documented — but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

children when measured 6 months after the intervention. Furthermore our detailed cost analysis, combined with a consideration …

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence … supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses …

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 …

How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by … for the subsequent child without the need to re-quality for benefits through pre-birth market work, if the two births … occur within a pre-specified interval. The eligibility birth interval for this automatic renewal of PL benefits was set to …

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 … Republic in promoting investments in children. Based on the capabilities approach to well-being initiated by Sen (2010), we …

, 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 …