children, but the effects on long-term health are overall negligible. However, we demonstrate that the schooling reform had …-term health. We use detailed administrative data combined with survey information to create a data set with background information …

variation in the test score convergence across states and racial convergence in measures of health and hospital access in the … earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier …

This paper examines the links between the disease environment around the time of a woman's birth, and her health at the … reflect a "scarring" vs. selection story; whites who go on to have children are negatively impacted, while blacks who go on to … have children are positively selected having survived a higher early childhood mortality rate. …

We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test …

different levels of schooling on health, health-related behaviors, and labor market outcomes. We develop an approach that is a … shaping educational choices and labor market and health outcomes. We improve on LATE by identifying the groups affected by …

stress hormone cortisol negatively affects offspring cognition, health and educational attainment. These findings are based …

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …

There have been numerous attempts to both document the income-health gradient in children and to understand the nature … decrease health disparities among children. … to add to the understanding of the pattern of the tie, through our ability to test for changes in health status and …

to electricity and health care seem not to affect mortality on extremely hot days. Residential AC appears to be both the …