's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. … this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …

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 …

- significant differences in the educational and labor market outcomes across children of varying birth orders. Taking advantage of … a rich set of information on in utero and early childhood conditions in the Children of the NLSY79, we find that, within … the same household, siblings of higher birth order experience a lower reduction in cigarette usage during pregnancy, are …

children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of …'s smoking all appear to contribute to the effect. We conclude that, by improving child health, unrestricted unconditional cash …

factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …

changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …. We use data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) among elderly individuals. This survey is …, socioeconomic and health status. We find that being born during a recession or boom period significantly influences cognitive …

In this paper we explore the impact of birth weight on children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes using data from …

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such …