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 …

offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is … understates the total impact on the second generation's accumulation of human capital. Our estimation results are generally robust … to IV estimation. …

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 …

While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that … education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other … effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact it has on both a patient´s demand for health services, and that …

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …

an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …

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 …

their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …

large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children …, long-lasting detrimental effects on the human capital formation, health and labor market outcomes of Germans who were at … school-age during WWII. First, these children had 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood, with those in the …

effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses … parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the …