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 …

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not …

beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …

acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to children's non …-cognitive characteristics. This paper evaluates the parental response to non-cognitive variation across siblings in rural Gansu province, China … for differences between their children, investing more in a child who exhibits greater non-cognitive deficits, while less …

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 …

One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … quickly absorb new information about health technology. The MMR controversy in the UK provides a case where, for a brief … children, could have potentially serious side-effects. As the controversy set in, uptake of the MMR vaccine by more educated …

How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by … how additional parental time and monetary resources impacts both the existing and new child's educational and health …. The effects are prevalent primarily among children to high-income mothers. Impacts are driven by a combination of a …

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 …

This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing … country. Health Survey of the Turkish Statistical Institute for the years 2008, 2010 and 2012 are used. The health behaviors … considered are smoking, alcohol consumption, fruit and vegetable consumption, exercising and one health outcome namely, the body …