;demonstration effectquot; postulates that adult children learn from a parent's example that family caregiving is appropriate behavior. The quot …

This study aims to measure the causal effect of informal caregiving on the health and health care use of women who are …-in-law, but a parent-in-law's functional limitation does not directly affect the daughter-in-law's health. We compare results for … sample. Our results show that providing informal care has significant adverse effects along multiple dimensions of health for …

professional in the family – and health. Exposure to expertise raises preventive health investments throughout the lifecycle …Do differences in health literacy contribute to the widely documented health-income gradient? In the context of Sweden …, we document a strong relationship between exposure to health-related expertise – captured by the presence of a health …

establish that child health- and education-related human capital outcomes are affected by resources of extended family members … family members. Drawing on theoretical models of collective decision-making, we use extremely rich data from Indonesia to … who co-reside with the child and those who are not co-resident. Extended family members are not completely altruistic but …

This paper provides new evidence on how household labor supply responds to fatal and severe non-fatal health shocks in … families' health and labor market outcomes, and construct counterfactuals to affected households by using households that … experience the same shock but a few years in the future. We find that fatal health shocks lead to an immediate increase in the …

, and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper uses a large dataset on the population of … Norway and focuses on the effect of birth order on a range of health and health-related behaviors, outcomes not previously …, there is no clear first-born advantage in health. However, later-borns are more likely to smoke and have poorer self …

on the health of her adoptive children, suggesting that family environment and resources in the post-birth years have … parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

Health, wealth and where one lives are important, if not the three most important material living conditions. There are … many mechanisms that suggest that living arrangements and well-being derived from health and economic status are closely …

employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First … dynamic panel data models to examine the effects of maternal employment on family outcomes during the first 4.5 years of … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared …

This paper evaluates the health impact of a central piece in the U.S. safety net for families with children: the Earned … health outcomes. We find that increased EITC income reduces the incidence of low birth weight and increases mean birth weight … health behaviors (smoking). We find little role for changes in health insurance. We contribute to the literature by …