wide range of outcomes of children of mothers who were exposed in-utero including income, education, employment, and … affected and their children. We find that on average, the famine had negative echo effects on second-generation outcomes. These …

causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reduced-form effect found in …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …-documented biological channel from early life circumstances to adult health, there is also a behavioral pathway …

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few …

population to the brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the …

this paper, we explore whether older parents of adult children who emigrate experience declines in mental health compared … to parents whose children do not migrate.We use data from the first two waves of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing … loneliness increase among the parents of migrant children but that the effect is only present for mothers. Given the relationship …

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 …

We identify the causal effect of mothers' mental health during early - and soon after pregnancy on a range of child … psychological, socio-emotional and cognitive outcomes measured between ages 4-16. Results suggest a negative effect on children … we find that mental health during or soon after pregnancy raises breastfeeding and improves measures of interaction …

improvements on some measures, undernutrition among India's young children remains widespread. The improvements we do identify are … conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and socio-economic factors contributing to undernutrition … among children under five in India. The analytic method combines three types of decomposition: Blinder-Oaxaca, non …