Recent research shows that health at birth is affected by many factors, including maternal education, behaviors, and … generations. Exposure to environmental pollution is one potential determinant of health at birth that has received increasing … children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …

We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants in a manual labor …-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been severely wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming … their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …

records are linked to provincial registries with outcomes data. We compare children with health conditions to their own … not asked how insults to child health after birth affect long-term outcomes, whether health at birth matters primarily … because it predicts future health or through some other mechanism, or whether health insults matter more at some key ages than …

There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education … status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child … health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental …

Understanding whether the gradient in children's health becomes steeper with age is an important first step in … uncovering the mechanisms that connect economic and health status, and in recommending sensible interventions to protect children …'s health. To that end, this paper examines why two sets of authors, Chen et al (2006) and Case et al (2002), using data from …

This paper is an empirical investigation of childhood and adolescent health and cognitive development as determined by … estimated to have no significant influence on health and cognitive development, but parents' education a strong positive …

, educations and social status, that children who experience poor health have significantly lower educational attainment, and … effects on educational attainment and initial adult health. Taken together with earlier findings that poorer children enter … adulthood in worse health and with less education than wealthier children, these results indicate that a key determinant of …

between two possible explanations. The first is that low-SES children are less able to respond to a given health shock. The …-SES children recover from past health shocks to about the same degree; and 3) that the relationship between SES and health grows … stronger over time mainly because low-SES children receive more negative health shocks. In addition, we examine the effect of …