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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by …

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 …