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 …

information on demographics, socio-economic conditions, life events, health, and cognitive functioning. We exploit exogenous … consecutive shocks later in life exceeds the sum of the separate effects, and whether economic and health shocks later in life …

This paper analyzes the impact of rainfall fluctuations during the gestational period on health at birth. We … concentrate on the semiarid region of Northeastern Brazil to highlight the role of water scarcity as a determinant of early life … health. We find that negative rainfall shocks are robustly correlated with higher infant mortality, lower birth weight, and …

explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the children of displaced workers and also the … first to consider whether there are any harmful effects for children who are not yet born when the separation occurs. I use … displacements on children's birth weights. These data allow for an identification strategy that essentially compares the outcomes of …

'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 …

We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of … Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on the estimation of dynamic panel data models. Contrary to much of the … previous literature on health and socio-economic status, we find that, on average, adverse income shocks lead to a …

We investigate the impact of health on working hours in recognition of the fact that leaving the labour market due to … persistently low levels of health stock or due to new health shocks, is only one of the possibilities open to employees. We use the … first six waves of the HILDA survey to estimate the joint effect of health status and health shocks on working hours using a …

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 …