The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children … experimentally designed, five-year home visiting program in Ireland targeting disadvantaged families - Preparing for Life (PFL). We …

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV … education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 …-1929 covering birth weight, family characteristics, school grades, sibling identifiers, and outcomes later in life including the …

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 …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the … impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the Netherlands, the only developed country where … home births are widespread. To account for endogeneity in location of birth, we exploit the exogenous variation in distance …

Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated … from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have never lived abroad. In so doing, we are testing …

the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …

Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National … Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As it is known that the QNHS undercounts … immigrants in Ireland, a concern exists over whether the profile of immigrants being provided is accurate. For example, QNHS …

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 …