eligibility during childhood on the later life mortality of black children at ages 15-18. The estimates indicate a 13-20 percent … the mortality of white children under the expansions … extended eligibility only to children born after September 30, 1983. This feature resulted in a large discontinuity in the …

not been very successful at reproducing the changes in fertility choice in response to decreased mortality and increased … due to an implicit assumption that number and utility of children are complements, which is a byproduct of the high …, and changes in mortality which account for 90 percent of the predicted change from 1880 to 1950 …

This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …

their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways … economy by examining the association of war wounds with the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US CivilWar (1861 …-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been severely wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming …

children born after WWII. Using state-level data on income growth, smoking, obesity and education, we explain over 70% of the … variance in current CVD mortality rates across the country …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely … of parental deaths on the well-being of children who were age 9 through 17 years old at the time of the tsunami … children before and after the tsunami, models that include child fixed effects are estimated to isolate the causal effect of …

causal impact of air quality on infant mortality across Sub-Saharan Africa. Combining detailed information on nearly 1 ….5 concentration driven by distant dust emission causes a 22% increase in infant mortality across our African sample (95% CI: 10 …-35%), an effect comparable to quasi-experimental pollution-infant mortality estimates from wealthier countries. We also show …

strongest among men with more urgent demand for children. Households treated with information on maternal risk experience a … demand for children generating a barrier to credible communication between spouses …

poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine …