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 …

virtually no effect. Mothers' work interruptions of up to two months before birth have a positive effect on birth outcomes … child endowment heterogeneity. This framework is applied to large American and British survey data on birth outcomes, with … characteristics. We find that maternal smoking during pregnancy reduces birth weight and fetal growth, while paternal smoking has …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. …

children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by … occur in the year of birth and the year before birth limit the degree to which child health is tied to family circumstance …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …

offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …

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 …

The literature on skill formation and human capital development clearly demonstrates that early investment in children …

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 …

causal effect of family size on children's education. Following common practice, a linear IV estimator has been used …, assuming constant marginal effects of additional children across family sizes. We find that the conclusion of no effect of …