early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in …

Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger …

This paper estimates the impact of armed conflict on subsequent health outcomes using detailed geographic information … children exposed in utero versus after birth. The identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in the conflict … war-exposed children subsequently have lower height-for-age Z-scores, and impacts using GPS information are 87-188% larger …

. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual …

A growing economics literature establishes a causal link between in utero shocks and health and human capital in … background and county of residence in early childhood to adult health and economic outcomes. The identification comes from …

This paper uses a policy discontinuity to identify the immediate and long-term effects of public health insurance … extended eligibility only to children born after September 30, 1983. This feature resulted in a large discontinuity in the … lifetime years of Medicaid eligibility of children at this birthdate cutoff. Those with family incomes at or just below the …

cash welfare recipients to estimate the effect of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health, labor supply, program …-based eligibility accumulated more Medicaid eligibility in childhood but did not differ on a range of other health, socioeconomic, and … extensive margin labor supply, and reduces receipt of disability transfer programs and public health insurance up to 50 years …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a …

children's health. We do find, however, that focusing on gender-inclusive economic variables obscures the extent to which the … health outcomes. In addition to using state unemployment rates to proxy for labor market conditions, as is common in the …-induced changes in labor market opportunities for fathers and mothers. In contrast with prominent studies of adult health, we find no …

establish that child health- and education-related human capital outcomes are affected by resources of extended family members …