impacts of war exposure on education. War exposed men marry later and have fewer children. War exposure of mothers (but not … health, the largest impacts stem from adolescent exposure …

Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …

Lead exposure has detrimental effects on fertility, infants, children, and adults. Despite the success in removing lead … evidence from humans support claims of an adverse relationship between lead pollution and human health. Since lead exposure is …, extensive research links elevated blood lead levels in children to academic and behavioral outcomes, but more limited attention …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes … diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest …

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 …

This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the … HRS and the PSID. Even though information on early life health events is critical, there is legitimate skepticism about … the ability of older respondents to remember specific health problems that they had as a child. The evidence presented in …

utilize medical services. We also find differences in parental health investment. First-born children are more likely to …This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between birth order, health at birth and in childhood …, and parental health investment using administrative data from Austria. We find significant birth order effects on health …

,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 risk factors in … status, domestic violence, neighborhood, and health). We used multinomial regression models to examine the association …. Results show that worse health condition in childhood and unfavorable childhood and adolescent socioeconomic status as …

strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been … ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …