reports results from a randomized field experiment designed to increase the time that parents of children in subsidized … little about what motivates parents to engage in their children's development, recent research suggests that ignoring or … preschool programs spend reading to their children using an electronic reading application that audio and video records parents …

emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness … has statistically important impacts on skinfold growth among children and adolescents. Diets between obese and non …-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or …

affects her children's health, but is also intrinsically linked to her spouse's labor market status and earnings. Paternal … health appears to be more linked to child schooling outcomes, especially for girls. When both parents are in poor health, the … negative effects on their children are compounded. Additionally, the consequences of poor parental health are enduring. Longer …

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 …

This paper exploits a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on child health in Taiwan … wives of men in these groups in the period from 1978 through 1999. Parents' schooling, especially mother's schooling, does … indeed cause favorable infant health outcomes. The increase in schooling associated with the reform saved almost 1 infant …

of a child with a random and serious health problem (versus the birth of a healthy infant) on the likelihood that the …, we find that the shock of having a child with a serious health problem increases both the father's post-birth conviction … and incarceration by 1 to 8 percentage points, depending on the measure of infant health used …

loss on children's health. We combine health data from 16 waves of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, which allows us to … loss is detrimental to the physical and mental health of children in low-socioeconomic status (SES) families, increasing …Recent research suggests that parental job loss has negative effects on children's outcomes, including their academic …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … investments affect cognitive development at all ages, but more so for younger children. Investments also have an impact on health … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production …

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health …

child health on father presence. We look at whether parents live in the same household 12-18 months after the child's birth … involved) during the same period. We find that having an infant in poor health reduces the likelihood that parents will live … together and increases the likelihood that they will become less committed to their relationship, particularly among parents …