We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which …

United States. Importantly, we find a significantly negative interaction between pre-migration labor supply and source … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …

, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be affected in several ways through migration and capital inflows …

Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project …This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in …

contribution of external migration to population growth. Next, similarities and differences in the current immigration policies are …

health, including mental health. Three major findings come forward from this work. First, disasters appear to bring …, education, health and many income-generating processes. Furthermore, some of these detrimental effects are both large and long … of improving our understanding of the impacts of disasters on health outcomes, the mechanisms of transmission and the …

's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …

. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 …We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For … siblings the migration occurs simultaneously in calendar time but at different developmental stages (ages). We find important …