vocational training nor the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, can … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …

transmits to children and grandchildren. Our findings indicate that third generation males (females) tend to have higher mental …

compromise these results. We also discuss assortative mating and household income as possible channels of causality. …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health … shocks in the previous three years have significant negative effects on children's behavioral outcomes. The most serious of …

, controlling for parental income, education and family composition, that parents who experience poor health have children with …The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years …. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they …